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put away

verb

1 put away

Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.

synonyms: lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, shut away, shut up.

Roget 905: live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse, put away; wear the horns.   

Dutch: kop dicht

2 put away

Throw or cast away:
— Put away your worries.

synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, throw away, throw out, toss ... show more.

Roget 782: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, ... show more

Dutch: afdanken, verwerpen, afleggen

3 put away

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.

synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put behind bars, remand.

Dutch: gevangenzetten, inmetselen, opsluiten

4 put away

Stop using:
— The children were told to put away their toys.
— The students put away their notebooks.

synonym: put aside.

5 put away

Kill gently, as with an injection.

synonym: put to sleep.

6 put away

Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food.

synonyms: tuck away, tuck in.

7 put away

Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily:
— It's time for you to put away childish things.

synonym: put aside.


Moby thesaurus: accomplish, achieve, annihilate, assassinate, attain, bank, bereave of life, bosom, bottle up, bump off, bundle away, bury, cache, carry away, carry off, chloroform, coffer, compass, consume, consummate ... show more.

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