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PUT ASIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily

Example:

it's time for you to put away childish things

Synonyms:

put aside; put away

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "put aside" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stop using

Example:

the students put away their notebooks

Synonyms:

put aside; put away

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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 Context examples: 

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity: I had never seen that handsome-featured face of his look more like chiselled marble than it did just now, as he put aside his snow-wet hair from his forehead and let the firelight shine free on his pale brow and cheek as pale, where it grieved me to discover the hollow trace of care or sorrow now so plainly graved.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As a result, you will be able to put a strong dent in any debt you might be carrying and be able to put aside money to build a nest egg.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Hack-work could be put aside.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)