Dictionary entry details
• PUT OUT (verb)
Meaning:
To cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
put out; inconvenience; incommode; disoblige; discommode; trouble; bother
Context example:
Sorry to trouble you, but...
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Put out considerable effort
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
He put out the same for seven managers
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put out; smother
Context example:
smother fires
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
extinguish; snuff out (put an end to; kill)
"Put out" entails doing...:
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Thrust or extend out
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
exsert; hold out; stretch forth; stretch out; put out; extend
Context examples:
He held out his hand / point a finger / extend a hand / the bee exserted its sting
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
hyperextend (extend a joint beyond its normal range)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Put out, as of a candle or a light
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
douse; put out
Context example:
Douse the lights
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
blow out; extinguish; quench; snuff out (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Be sexually active
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
She is supposed to put out
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Cause to be out on a fielding play
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put out; retire
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
diddle; fiddle; play; toy (manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination)
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Retire
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context example:
he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
play (participate in games or sport)
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
issue; publish; bring out; release; put out
Context example:
publish a magazine or newspaper
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
edit (supervise the publication of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue put out the movie
Meaning:
Make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
anaesthetise; put under; anesthetize; anesthetise; anaesthetize; put to sleep; put out
Context example:
The patient must be anesthetized before the operation
Hypernyms (to "put out" is one way to...):
dose; drug (administer a drug to)
Cause:
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put out"):
etherise; etherize (anesthetize with ether)
cocainise; cocainize (anesthetize with cocaine)
chloroform (anesthetize with chloroform)
freeze (anesthetize by cold)
block (interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
