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  • 11put\ out — v 1. To make a flame or light stop burning; extinguish; turn off. Please put the light out when you leave the room. The firemen put out the blaze. 2. To prepare for the public; produce; make. For years he had put out a weekly newspaper. It is a… …

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  • 12put off — {v.} 1. {informal} To cause confusion in; embarrass; displease. * /I was rather put off by the shamelessness of his proposal./ * /The man s slovenliness put me off./ 2. To wait and have (something) at a later time; postpone. * /They put off the… …

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  • 13put off — {v.} 1. {informal} To cause confusion in; embarrass; displease. * /I was rather put off by the shamelessness of his proposal./ * /The man s slovenliness put me off./ 2. To wait and have (something) at a later time; postpone. * /They put off the… …

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  • 14put\ off — v 1. informal To cause confusion in; embarrass; displease. I was rather put off by the shamelessness of his proposal. The man s slovenliness put me off. 2. To wait and have (smth) at a later time; postpone. They put off the picnic because of the… …

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  • 15put out — verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. extinguish < put the fire out > 2. exert, use < put out considerable effort > 3. publish, issue 4. to produce for sale …

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  • 16put to — verb Etymology: Middle English putten to to shut, from putten to put + to transitive verb 1. chiefly dialect : shut put …

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  • 17put off — I. (Active.) 1. Discard, renounce, reject, cast aside, lay aside, divest one s self of. 2. Defeat, frustrate, disappoint, turn aside, baffle. 3. Defer, delay, procrastinate, postpone. 4. Get rid of, dispose of, pass fraudulently. II. (Neuter.)&#8230; …

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  • 18put out of your troubles —    to kill    Or put out of your misery, as the case may be:     Shore s you re born, he ll turn State s evidence... I m for putting him out of his troubles. (Twain, 1884) …

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  • 19To put about — Put Put (put; often p[u^]t in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To steer; to direct one s course; to go. [1913 Webster] His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 20To put back — Put Put (put; often p[u^]t in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To steer; to direct one s course; to go. [1913 Webster] His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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