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his actions. 4 express, word, phrase; say, utter, write: How
did they put it? - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal...' To put it to you straight,
shape up or ship out! Can you put that into French? 5 offer,
advance, bring forward, present, propose, submit, tender, set
before: I put it to you that you have been lying to the court
and that you did leave your house that night. 6 bet, gamble,
wager, stake, play, chance, risk, hazard: I put two pounds on
the horse to win. 7 throw, heave, toss, fling, cast, pitch,
bowl, lob, send, shy, shoot, snap, catapult: How far did you
say you can put a 10-pound shot? 8 place, assign, attribute,
lay, pin, attach, fix: They try to put the blame on me for
everything that goes wrong around here. 9 put about. broadcast,
publish, make known, publicize, announce, spread about or
around: They have been putting about some story linking the two
of us romantically. 10 put across or over. make clear, get
across, make (something or oneself) understood or
understandable, explain, spell out, convey, communicate: She is
quite adept at putting across her ideas. 11 put aside. set or
lay aside, ignore, disregard, pay no heed to, push aside, shrug
off: They put aside their differences and discovered they had
much in common. Isn't it time you put aside childish things? 12
put aside or by or away. lay aside or by, set aside; save,
store, stow or store or salt or squirrel away, lay away, cache,
bank: You ought to put a little money aside for a rainy day.
13 put away. a See 12, above. b jail or Brit also gaol,
imprison, incarcerate, Colloq send, jug, confine, commit,
institutionalize, remand, Brit send down, US send up: She wants
rapists and child molesters put away for a long, long time. c
See 16 (d), below. d consume, gorge, gormandize or US also
gourmandize: It is unbelievable how much that man can put away
at one sitting. 14 put back. return, replace, restore: He
insists that he put back all the money he took. Put the pictures
back where they belong. 15 put by. See 12, above. 16 put down.
a record, register, write down, set down, enter, list; log, note
(down), jot down, make a note or notation of: You may put me
down for a contribution of œ5. Please put down your name and
address in the box provided. b depose, put an end to, topple,
crush, overthrow, subdue, suppress, check, quash, quell: The
loyalists put down the rebellion in short order. c ascribe,
assign, attribute: The doctor put my feelings of fatigue and
listlessness down to anaemia. d kill, exterminate, destroy, put
to death, put to sleep, put away, do away with: We had to have