put away

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verb

1. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (Freq. 2)
- The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
- She locked her jewels in the safe
• Syn:
lock in, lock away, lock, shut up, shut away, lock up
• Derivationally related forms:
lockup (for: lock up)
• Hypernyms:
confine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. throw or cast away (Freq. 1)
- Put away your worries
• Syn:
discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away,
toss away, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out,
throw away, cast away
• Derivationally related forms:
disposition (for: dispose), disposal (for: dispose), fling (for: fling), discard (for: discard)
• Hypernyms:
get rid of, remove
• Hyponyms:
unlearn, deep-six, give it the deep six, jettison, trash,
junk, scrap, waste, dump, retire, abandon,
sell out, sell up, liquidize, de-access, close out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
• Syn:
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars,
jail, jug, gaol, remand
• Derivationally related forms:
remand (for: remand), gaoler (for: gaol), gaol (for: gaol), jailer (for: jail), jailor (for: jail), jail (for: jail), immurement (for: immure), incarceration (for: incarcerate), imprisonment (for: imprison)
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
confine, detain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to put away the prisoners
4. stop using
- the children were told to put away their toys
- the students put away their notebooks
• Syn:
put aside
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. kill gently, as with an injection
- the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
• Syn:
put to sleep
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. eat up;
usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
- My son tucked in a whole pizza
• Syn:
tuck in, tuck away
• Hypernyms:
eat up, finish, polish off
• Entailment:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They put away more bread
7. turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
- it's time for you to put away childish things
• Syn:
put aside
• Hypernyms:
interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something