Dictionary entry details
• PUT AWAY (verb)
Meaning:
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
lock away; shut away; put away; shut up; lock up; lock in; lock
Context examples:
The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend / She locked her jewels in the safe
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
toss out; toss away; throw away; discard; chuck out; cast aside; cast away; dispose; put away; cast out; throw out; fling; toss
Context example:
Put away your worries
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put away"):
unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)
de-access (dispose of by selling)
liquidize; sell out; sell up (get rid of all one's merchandise)
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
pension off; retire (dispose of; as of old clothes)
dump (throw away as refuse)
waste (get rid of)
junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))
jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)
deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
put behind bars; jug; jail; incarcerate; imprison; immure; gaol; lag; remand; put away
Context examples:
The suspects were imprisoned without trial / the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to put away the prisoners
Meaning:
Stop using
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put aside; put away
Context examples:
the children were told to put away their toys / the students put away their notebooks
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Kill gently, as with an injection
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put to sleep; put away
Context example:
the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
tuck away; tuck in; put away
Context example:
My son tucked in a whole pizza
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
eat up; finish; polish off (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table)
"Put away" entails doing...:
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They put away more bread
Meaning:
Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
put aside; put away
Context example:
it's time for you to put away childish things
Hypernyms (to "put away" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
