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English verb: put away | |||
| 1. | put away (contact) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | ||
| Samples | The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend. She locked her jewels in the safe. | ||
| Synonyms | lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, shut away, shut up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s somebody PP. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confine | ||
| 2. | put away (possession) throw or cast away | ||
| Samples | Put away your worries. | ||
| Synonyms | cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | get rid of, remove | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abandon, close out, de-access, deep-six, dump, give it the deep six, jettison, junk, liquidize, retire, scrap, sell out, sell up, trash, unlearn, waste | ||
| 3. | put away (social) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | ||
| Samples | The suspects were imprisoned without trial. The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life. | ||
| Examples | They want to put away the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put behind bars, remand | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confine, detain | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 4. | put away (contact) stop using | ||
| Samples | The children were told to put away their toys. The students put away their notebooks. | ||
| Synonyms | put aside | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| 5. | put away (contact) kill gently, as with an injection | ||
| Samples | The cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep. | ||
| Synonyms | put to sleep | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| 6. | put away (consumption) eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food | ||
| Samples | My son tucked in a whole pizza. | ||
| Examples | They put away more bread | ||
| Synonyms | tuck away, tuck in | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eat up, finish, polish off | ||
| Entail | eat | ||
| 7. | put away (communication) turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily | ||
| Samples | It's time for you to put away childish things. | ||
| Synonyms | put aside | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | break up, cut off, disrupt, interrupt | ||
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