put out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts out
form: putting out
form: put out
form: put out
Senses: examples: text: You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
glosses: To blind (eyes).
examples: text: Don’t forget to put out the dog.
glosses: To place outside, to remove, particularly
examples: text: ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
glosses: To place outside, to remove, particularly
To expel.
synonyms: boot out
eject
kick out
glosses: To place outside, to remove, particularly
To remove from office.
synonyms: depose
impeach
examples: text: I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
text: “Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?”
“I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
glosses: To cause something to be out, particularly
To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
synonyms: word: perturb
word: unsettle
word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
examples: text: England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To cause something to be out, particularly
To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To cause something to be out, particularly
To cause a player on offense to be out.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sports
war
glosses: To cause something to be out, particularly
Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
synonyms: word: knock out
extra: to render unconscious
examples: text: Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:
synonyms: word: set out
word: start out
word: beat it
word: bug off
word: remove
word: bugger off
word: book
word: bounce
word: buzz off
word: chuck
word: cut one's stick
word: dash
word: depart
word: duck out
word: exit
word: get away
word: get out
word: go
word: go away
word: go out
word: GTFO
word: leave
word: make tracks
word: move on
word: namous
word: part
word: piss off
word: pull up stakes
word: put out
word: start
word: start out
word: set forth
word: set off
word: set out
word: run along
word: sling one's hook
word: split
word: take off
word: take leave
word: take one's leave
word: take wing
word: quit
glosses: To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
examples: text: The factory puts out 4000 units each day.
text: This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To produce, to emit.
synonyms: give off
send out
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To express.
examples: text: ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To broadcast, to publish.
examples: text: Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To dislocate (a joint).
examples: text: They worked for days to put out the brushfire.
text: She put out her cigarette.
text: One of the accident victims had to be put out by the passers-by.
text: Yet she must dye, else shee'l betray more men:
Put out the Light, and then put out the Light:
If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister,
I can againe thy former light restore,
Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light,
Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature,
I know not where is that Promethaean heate
That can thy Light re-Lume.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: […] in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To extinguish (fire).
synonyms: douse
extinct
examples: text: 'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, "Put that light out", but you shout, "Put out the light".'
'Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.
ref: 2010, Terry Deary, Put out the Light, p. 10
text: Put out those lights before the Germans see them.
glosses: To cause something to go out, particularly
To turn off (light).
examples: text: Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?
ref: 1928 December, Our Army, page 19:
text: Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 17, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
text: Aarfy […] tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC:
text: Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.^([sic])
ref: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95:
text: If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.
ref: 1975, David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses, page 232:
text: I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.
ref: 2003, Elizabeth M. Noble, Reading Group, page 205:
text: This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her.
ref: 2005, William Heffernan, A Time Gone By:
synonyms: open one's legs
spread one's legs
glosses: To consent to having sex.
Derived terms: word: output
sense: Expressions
word: put out a fire
sense: Expressions
word: put out feelers
sense: Expressions
word: put out of one's mind
sense: Expressions
word: put out to grass
sense: Expressions
word: put out to pasture
sense: Expressions
word: put someone out of their misery