- put away
- ► put away informal 1) consume (food or drink) in large quantities. 2) confine in a prison or psychiatric hospital.Main Entry: ↑put
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put away — index keep (shelter), preserve, retain (keep in possession), set aside (reserve) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
put away — {v.} 1. To put in the right place or out of sight. * /She put away the towels./ 2. To lay aside; stop thinking about. * /He put his worries away for the weekend./ 3. {informal} To eat or drink. * /He put away a big supper and three cups of coffee … Dictionary of American idioms
put away — {v.} 1. To put in the right place or out of sight. * /She put away the towels./ 2. To lay aside; stop thinking about. * /He put his worries away for the weekend./ 3. {informal} To eat or drink. * /He put away a big supper and three cups of coffee … Dictionary of American idioms
put away — verb a) To place out of the way, clean up. Please put away the tools when you are finished. b) To store, add to ones stores for later use. I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room … Wiktionary
put away — phr verb Put away is used with these nouns as the object: ↑clothes, ↑decoration, ↑dish, ↑grocery, ↑laundry, ↑shopping, ↑thing, ↑toy, ↑wallet … Collocations dictionary
Put away — 1. institutionalised for reasons of mental illness: He should be put away ; 2. sent to jail; 3. eat voraciously … Dictionary of Australian slang
put away — Australian Slang 1. institutionalised for reasons of mental illness: He should be put away ; 2. sent to jail; 3. eat voraciously … English dialects glossary
put away — Synonyms and related words: 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, cool, cut down … Moby Thesaurus
put away — transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. a. discard, renounce < to put grief away is disloyal to the memory of the departed H. A. Overstreet > b. divorce 2. to eat or drink up ; consume 3. a. to confine … New Collegiate Dictionary
To put away — Put Put, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
put away — to process cod by unloading, splitting and salting the catch (Newfoundland) … Dictionary of ichthyology
