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Definition & Synonyms
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• Put
- () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
- (v. t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- (n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
- (v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
- (v. t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
- (n.) A prostitute.
- (n.) A certain game at cards.
- (v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
- (n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
- (v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- (v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
- (imp. & p. p.) of Put
- (v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.
- (v. t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
- (v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
- (v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
- (n.) A pit.
- (v. i.) To steer; to direct ones course; to go.
Synonyms:
Arrange, Assign, Cast, Commit, Couch, Frame, Invest, Lay, Order, Place, Pose, Position, Redact, Set,
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• Putrifacted
- (a.) Putrefied.
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• Puttering
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putter
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Transcribes, Chandlery, Ary, Aryan, Account, To Debit In, Englishman, Audiology, Voluntary, Convale, Antibody, English Decisions, Conv, Chandelled, Arums, Chaste, Despite, Conundrums, Precedence, Those, Chancy, Pork, Hamburger, Hang, Arum Ed, Contuses, Englands, Englacially, Court Fee, Rein, Artwork, Those, Captions, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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