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PUT AWAY
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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 away" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
Example:
My son tucked in a whole pizza
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
eat up; finish; polish off (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table)
"Put away" entails doing...:
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They put away more bread
Sense 3
Meaning:
Kill gently, as with an injection
Example:
the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
Synonyms:
put away; put to sleep
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
Example:
She locked her jewels in the safe
Synonyms:
lock; lock away; lock in; lock up; put away; shut away; shut up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 5
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
Sense 6
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Example:
Put away your worries
Synonyms:
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put away"):
unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)
deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)
jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)
junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))
waste (get rid of)
dump (throw away as refuse)
retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)
de-access (dispose of by selling)
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Example:
the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Synonyms:
gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to put away the prisoners
Context examples:
They put away their grief, and each did his or her part toward making that last year a happy one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Let him put away his whim now, and he is welcome back.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At dark I allowed Adele to put away books and work, and to run downstairs; for, from the comparative silence below, and from the cessation of appeals to the door-bell, I conjectured that Mr. Rochester was now at liberty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They tried to be calm, poor things, as their mother sat up, looking pale but steady, and put away her grief to think and plan for them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One day, however, as she put away her account-book and unfolded her embroidery, she suddenly took her up thus—Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Tumbling about in one part of the desk among bills, passports, and business documents of various kinds were several of Jo's letters, and in another compartment were three notes from Amy, carefully tied up with one of her blue ribbons and sweetly suggestive of the little dead roses put away inside.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Howbeit, there was a general breaking up of the party, while the remnants of the dinner were being put away; and I strolled off by myself among the trees, in a raging and remorseful state.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I'm not Meg tonight, I'm 'a doll' who does all sorts of crazy things. Tomorrow I shall put away my 'fuss and feathers' and be desperately good again," she answered with an affected little laugh.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I had often admired, as I have elsewhere described, his benignant manner towards his youthful wife; but the respectful tenderness he manifested in every reference to her on this occasion, and the almost reverential manner in which he put away from him the lightest doubt of her integrity, exalted him, in my eyes, beyond description.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
