put
1 bring, deposit, establish, fix, lay, place, position, rest, set, settle, situate
2 commit, condemn, consign, doom, enjoin, impose, inflict, levy, subject
3 assign, constrain, employ, force, induce, make, oblige, require, set, subject to
4 express, phrase, pose, set, state, utter, word
5 advance, bring forward, forward, offer, posit, present, propose, set before, submit, tender
6 cast, fling, heave, hurl, lob, pitch, throw, toss
put across , over
communicate, convey, explain, get across, get through, make clear, make oneself understood, spell out
put aside , by
1 cache, deposit, keep in reserve, lay by, salt away, save, squirrel away, stockpile, store, stow away
2 bury, discount, disregard, forget, ignore
put away
1 put back, replace, return to (its) place, tidy away
2 deposit, keep, lay in, put by, save, set aside, store away
3 certify, commit, confine, institutionalize, lock up
4 consume, devour, eat up, gobble, gulp down, wolf down
5 destroy, do away with, put down, put out of its misery, put to sleep
put-down
barb, dig, disparagement, gibe, humiliation, kick in the teeth (slang) knock (informal) one in the eye (informal) rebuff, sarcasm, slight, sneer, snub
put down
1 enter, inscribe, log, record, set down, take down, transcribe, write down
2 crush, quash, quell, repress, silence, stamp out, suppress
3 (with)
to ascribe, attribute, impute, set down
4 destroy, do away with, put away, put out of its misery, put to sleep
5 (slang) condemn, crush, deflate, dismiss, disparage, humiliate, mortify, reject, shame, slight, snub
put forward
advance, introduce, move, nominate, prescribe, present, press, proffer, propose, recommend, submit, suggest, tender
put off
1 defer, delay, hold over, postpone, put back, put on ice, put on the back burner (informal) reschedule, take a rain check on (U.S. & Canad. informal)
2 abash, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, dismay, distress, faze, nonplus, perturb, rattle (informal) take the wind out of someone's sails, throw (informal) unsettle
3 discourage, dishearten, dissuade
Antonyms
3 egg on, encourage, incite, persuade, prompt, push, spur, urge
put on
1 change into, don, dress, get dressed in, slip into
2 affect, assume, fake, feign, make believe, play-act, pretend, sham, simulate
3 do, mount, present, produce, show, stage
5 back, bet, lay, place, wager
Antonyms
1 cast off, doff, remove, shed, slip off, slip out of, take off, throw off, undress
put out
1 anger, annoy, confound, disturb, exasperate, harass, irk, irritate, nettle, perturb, provoke, vex
2 blow out, douse, extinguish, quench, smother, snuff out, stamp out
3 bother, discomfit, discommode, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, embarrass, impose upon, incommode, inconvenience, put on the spot, take the wind out of someone's sails, trouble, upset
4 bring out, broadcast, circulate, issue, make known, make public, publish, release
put through
accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry through, conclude, do, effect, execute, manage, pull off, realize
put up
1 build, construct, erect, fabricate, raise
2 accommodate, board, entertain, give one lodging, house, lodge, take in
3 float, nominate, offer, present, propose, put forward, recommend, submit
4 advance, give, invest, pay, pledge, provide, supply
5 put up to egg on, encourage, goad, incite, instigate, prompt, put the idea into one's head, urge
6 put up with (informal) abide, bear, brook, endure, hack (slang) lump (informal) pocket, stand, stand for, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, tolerate
Antonyms
1 demolish, destroy, flatten, knock down, level, pull down, raze, tear down
6 not stand for, object to, oppose, protest against, reject, take exception to
put-upon
abused, beset, exploited, harried, imposed upon, inconvenienced, overworked, put-out, saddled, taken advantage of, taken for a fool, taken for granted, troubled