put away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts away
form: putting away
form: put away
form: put away
Senses: examples: text: Please put away the tools when you are finished.
text: I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, Richard Jefferies, chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher:
antonyms: take out
glosses: To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.
examples: text: putting a little away for a rainy day
text: Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter.
coordinate_terms: lay aside
lay away
lay by
lay in
lay up
put aside
put by
save
store
store away
store up
glosses: To store, add to one's stores for later use.
examples: text: You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.
text: The blonde one, old Bernice, was drinking bourbon and water. She was really putting it away, too.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
examples: text: After he was convicted, they put him away for 10 years.
glosses: To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.
examples: text: It's Decoration Day.
And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away,
but my Daddy wasn't afraid.
He said "We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day"
ref: 2003, Jason Isbell, Decoration Day:
glosses: To kill someone.
examples: text: He put away his opponent in the first round.
qualifier: combat sports
glosses: To knock out an opponent.
examples: text: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Corinthians XIII:11:
glosses: To discard, divest oneself of.
examples: text: Also he told kynge Arthur that he shold mysse hym / yet had ye leuer than al your landes to haue me ageyne / A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
glosses: To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
examples: text: And the pharyses cam and axed hym a question: whether it were laufull for a man to putt awaye hys wyfe.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:
glosses: To divorce.
examples: text: They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike out a batter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: (pickleball) To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot
Related terms: pack away