put : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty
  distressed; hard-pressed; in a bad way.
  
  • distressed companies need loans and technical advice
  • financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices
  • we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment
  • found themselves in a bad way financially

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• adjective satellite causing annoyance or repugnance
  
  • an off-putting remark
• adjective satellite tending to repel
  
  • The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile"- Elizabeth Hess

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• verb transmit information
  pass along; communicate; pass on; pass.
  
  • Please communicate this message to all employees
  • pass along the good news

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• verb stop using
  put aside.
  
  • the children were told to put away their toys
  • the students put away their notebooks
• verb turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
  put aside.
  
  • it's time for you to put away childish things

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• verb place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  lock up; shut up; lock; lock in; shut away; lock away.
  
  • The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
  • She locked her jewels in the safe
• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; cast out; discard; toss out; toss away.
  
  • Put away your worries
• verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; immure; gaol; jail; put away; imprison.
  
  • The suspects were imprisoned without trial
  • the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
• verb stop using
  put aside.
  
  • the children were told to put away their toys
  • the students put away their notebooks
• verb kill gently, as with an injection
  put away.
  
  • the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
• verb eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
  tuck in; tuck away.
  
  • My son tucked in a whole pizza
• verb turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
  put aside.
  
  • it's time for you to put away childish things

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• verb put something back where it belongs
  replace.
  
  • replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it
  • please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them
• verb cost a certain amount
  knock back; set back.
  
  • My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000

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• verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; immure; gaol; jail; put away; imprison.
  
  • The suspects were imprisoned without trial
  • the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

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• formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.

  Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. Bp. Hall.

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• adverb otherwise stated
  in other words.
  
  • in other words, we are broke

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• verb cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
  place down; set down.
  
  • set down your bags here
• verb put in a horizontal position
  repose; lay.
  
  • lay the books on the table
  • lay the patient carefully onto the bed
• verb cause to come to the ground
  bring down; land.
  
  • the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
• verb reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  take down; demean; disgrace; degrade.
  
  • She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  • His critics took him down after the lecture
• verb leave or unload
  unload; drop off; drop; set down; discharge.
  
  • unload the cargo
  • drop off the passengers at the hotel
• verb put (an animal) to death
  destroy.
  
  • The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid
  • the sick cat had to be put down
• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  get down; write down; set down.
  
• verb make a record of; set down in permanent form
  record; enter.
  

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• verb put before
  posit; state; submit.
  
  • I submit to you that the accused is guilty
• verb insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
  assert.
  
  • Women should assert themselves more!
• verb summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  arouse; raise; invoke; conjure up; bring up; call down; call forth; evoke; stir; conjure.
  
  • raise the specter of unemployment
  • he conjured wild birds in the air
  • call down the spirits from the mountain
• verb propose as a candidate for some honor
  nominate; put forward.
  

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• verb introduce
  insert; stick in; introduce; inclose; enclose.
  
  • Insert your ticket here
• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  salt away; stack away; hive away; stash away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
• verb break into a conversation
  cut in; barge in; butt in; chisel in; break in; chime in.
  
  • her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation
• verb set up for use
  instal; set up; install.
  
  • install the washer and dryer
  • We put in a new sink
• verb make an application as for a job or funding
  submit.
  
  • We put in a grant to the NSF
• verb to insert between other elements
  throw in; interject; interpose; come in; inject.
  
  • She interjected clever remarks

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• verb hold back to a later time
  prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
  
  • let's postpone the exam
• verb cause to feel intense dislike or distaste
  turn off.
  
• verb take away the enthusiasm of
  dishearten.
  
• verb cause to feel embarrassment
  disconcert; flurry; confuse.
  
  • The constant attention of the young man confused her
• verb avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  dodge; fudge; sidestep; evade; parry; elude; skirt; duck; hedge; circumvent.
  
  • He dodged the issue
  • she skirted the problem
  • They tend to evade their responsibilities
  • he evaded the questions skillfully

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• verb put clothing on one's body
  assume; don; get into; wear.
  
  • What should I wear today?
  • He put on his best suit for the wedding
  • The princess donned a long blue dress
  • The queen assumed the stately robes
  • He got into his jeans
• verb add to something existing
  
  • She put on a sun room
• verb put on the stove or ready for cooking
  
  • put on the tea, please!
• verb carry out (performances)
  turn in.
  
  • They turned in a splendid effort
  • They turned in top jobs for the second straight game
• verb add to the odometer
  
  • He put on 1,000 miles on this trip
• verb prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
  mount.
  
  • mount a theater production
  • mount an attack
  • mount a play
• verb apply to a surface
  apply.
  
  • She applied paint to the back of the house
  • Put on make-up!
• verb fool or hoax
  fool; put on; gull; take in; dupe; befool; cod; put one across; slang.
  
  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!
• verb increase (one's body weight)
  gain.
  
  • She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising
• adjective satellite adopted in order to deceive
  false; assumed; pretended; fictitious; fictive; sham.
  
  • an assumed name
  • an assumed cheerfulness
  • a fictitious address
  • fictive sympathy
  • a pretended interest
  • a put-on childish voice
  • sham modesty

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• verb act like the master of
  lord it over; queen it over; act superior.
  
  • He is lording it over the students

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• verb expose to a chance of loss or damage
  lay on the line; risk.
  
  • We risked losing a lot of money in this venture
  • Why risk your life?
  • She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong

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• verb fool or hoax
  fool; put on; gull; take in; dupe; befool; cod; put one across; slang.
  
  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!

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• verb fool or hoax
  fool; put on; gull; take in; dupe; befool; cod; put one across; slang.
  
  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!

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• noun an option to sell
  
• noun the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
  put.
  

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• verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
  disoblige; bother; inconvenience; incommode; discommode; trouble.
  
  • Sorry to trouble you, but...
• verb put out considerable effort
  
  • He put out the same for seven managers
• verb deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
  smother.
  
  • smother fires
• verb thrust or extend out
  stretch out; extend; exsert; stretch forth; hold out.
  
  • He held out his hand
  • point a finger
  • extend a hand
  • the bee exserted its sting
• verb put out, as of a candle or a light
  douse.
  
  • Douse the lights
• verb be sexually active
  
  • She is supposed to put out
• verb cause to be out on a fielding play
  retire.
  
• verb retire
  
  • he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field
• verb prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
  bring out; release; issue; publish.
  
  • publish a magazine or newspaper
• verb administer an anesthetic drug to
  anesthetise; anaesthetise; anaesthetize; anesthetize; put out.
  
  • The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
  • anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth

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• verb make some preliminary investigations or test the waters
  

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• verb communicate successfully
  get across.
  
  • I couldn't get across the message
  • He put over the idea very well
• verb hold back to a later time
  prorogue; set back; defer; remit; put off; shelve; table; postpone; hold over.
  
  • let's postpone the exam

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• verb settle or put right
  straighten out; iron out.
  
  • we need to iron out our disagreements

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• verb pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
  follow up; follow through; go through; carry out; follow out; implement.
  
  • Did he go through with the treatment?
  • He implemented a new economic plan
  • She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal
• verb connect by telephone
  
  • the operator put a call through to Rio

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• verb kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
  execute.
  
  • In some states, criminals are executed

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• verb help someone go to bed
  
  • Mother put the baby to sleep
• verb kill gently, as with an injection
  put away.
  
  • the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep

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• verb cause to work
  work.
  
  • he is working his servants hard

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• verb create by putting components or members together
  tack together; set up; tack; assemble; piece.
  
  • She pieced a quilt
  • He tacked together some verses
  • They set up a committee

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• verb administer an anesthetic drug to
  anesthetise; anaesthetise; anaesthetize; anesthetize; put out.
  
  • The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
  • anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth

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• verb place so as to be noticed
  post.
  
  • post a sign
  • post a warning at the dump
• verb mount or put up
  provide; offer.
  
  • put up a good fight
  • offer resistance
• verb construct, build, or erect
  set up; rear; raise; erect.
  
  • Raise a barn
• verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  stomach; brook; support; tolerate; bear; abide; endure; stick out; suffer; digest; stand.
  
  • I cannot bear his constant criticism
  • The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
  • he learned to tolerate the heat
  • She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
• verb make available for sale at an auction
  
  • The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction
• verb preserve in a can or tin
  tin; can.
  
  • tinned foods are not very tasty
• verb provide housing for
  house; domiciliate.
  
  • The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town
• verb provide
  contribute.
  
  • The city has to put up half the required amount
• verb propose as a candidate for some honor
  nominate; put forward.
  

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• noun a crushing remark
  squelch; squelcher; takedown.
  

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Put"-off` noun

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1. A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. L'Estrange.

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• noun a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
  pasquinade; mockery; takeoff; lampoon; travesty; sendup; spoof; charade; burlesque; parody.
  
• noun something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
  humbug; fraud; hoax; fraudulence; dupery.
  
• noun a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
  caper; joke; trick; antic; prank.
  

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• noun a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)
  

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• adjective satellite planned secretly
  
  • it was a put-up job

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Put"-up adjective

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1. Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job. Colloq.

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• adjective satellite of persons; taken advantage of
  exploited; victimised; victimized; used; ill-used.
  
  • after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used

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• noun an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
  putting green; green.
  
  • the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker

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• noun the iron normally used on the putting green
  putter.
  

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• noun an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
  putting green; green.
  
  • the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker

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• noun the act of terminating a life
  kill; killing.
  

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• noun an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible
  

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• verb stay put (in a certain place); we are not moving to Cincinnati"
  stick around; stick; stay.
  
  • We are staying in Detroit
  • Stay put in the corner here!
  • Stick around and you will learn something!

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• to attack; to oppose; to kill.

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• to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct.

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• . See under Grindstone.

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• to employ; to derive service from; to use.

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• to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.

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• to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.

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• to assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked.) . Colloq.

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• to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. Cant

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• to suppose a hypothetical or illustrative case.

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• to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

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• to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design.

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• (Naut.), to equip and man a goverment vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp., the formal act of tacking command of a vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc.

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• (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently.

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• (Naut.), to change direction; to tack.
• (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship.

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• to destroy.

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• . (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce .

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• (Naut.), to turn back; to return. "The French . . . had put back to Toulon." Southey.
• . (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny .

  Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.

  (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace .

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• . (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. "Smiling put the question by." Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money.

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• . (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices . (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion of traitors .

  Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak.

  Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Bacon.

  (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name.

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• . (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate . "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak.
• . (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength . (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like . (d) To publish, as a book .

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• . (a) To advance to a position of prominence responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid . (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour .

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• . (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship . (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court . Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place.
• (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port.

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• to be present; to appear in person.

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• . (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits . (b) To go into covert; said of a bird escaping from a hawk . (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for . Locke.

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• to remind. "Regard us simply as putting you in mind of what you already know to be good policy." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

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• to give aid or advice; commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited.

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• to pawn; to give as security.

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• . (a) To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information . (b) (Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry.

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• to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay.

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• . (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.

  I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle.

  We might put him off with this answer. Bentley.

  (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory = to pass off . (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat .
• to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore.

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• to hasten motion; to drive vehemently.

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• . (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote . Obs. "This came handsomely to put on the peace." Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." 2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. Burrill.

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• to cause or incite one to use one's best efforts.

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• to take a resolute stand; to be determined. Colloq.

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• to dine with him. Slang

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• to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. Slang

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• . (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout . (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire . (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds . (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply . Colloq. (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet . (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking . (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows . Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball .

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• to refuse further judicial hearing.

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• to kill; to destroy.

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• . (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer .

  For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truth put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. Shak.

  (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river .
• (Naut.), to sail over or across.

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• to strain.

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• to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.

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• to make a good appearance; to do one's best. Colloq.

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• to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. Eng.

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• . (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft . "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." Ex. xxii. 11.

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• to steal. Ex. xxii. 8.

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• to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion.

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• to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. U.S.

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• . (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard . "That dares not put it to the touch." Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens.

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• to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties.

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• . (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth .

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• to kill.

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• to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.

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• to put out to graze a season, as cattle.

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• to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." Shak.

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• to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.

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• to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.

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• to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly.

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• to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

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• (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean.

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• to cause to feel shame; to humiliate; to disgrace. "Let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil."

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• to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.

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• to subject to torture; to torment.

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• to kill with the sword; to slay.

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• to bring to a test; to try.

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• to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one.

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• to confide in; to repose confidence in.

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• to subject to presure; to force.

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• . (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. Obs. "Such national injuries are not to be put up." Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game . "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter . Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house . (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers .
• . (a) To take lodgings; to lodge . (b) To offer one's self as a candidate . L'Estrange.

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• to arrange a plot. Slang

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• to advance to. Obs. "With this he put up to my lord." Swift.

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• . (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront . (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

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• to take up one's residence; to lodge. Obs.

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• to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order.

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