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  • 41put 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 …

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  • 42put\ 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. Compare: stow… …

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  • 43put down — 1) informal she often puts me down Syn: criticize, belittle, disparage, deprecate, denigrate, slight, humiliate, shame, crush, squash, deflate; informal show up, cut down to size 2) I put him down as shy …

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  • 44death — /dɛθ / (say deth) noun 1. the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of the vital functions of an animal or plant. 2. (often upper case) the agent of death personified, usually represented as a skeleton, or as an old man …

  • 45put something down — 1 he put his ideas down on paper: WRITE DOWN, note down, jot down, take down, set down; list, record, register, log. 2 they put down the rebellion: SUP …

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  • 46death — [[t]dɛθ[/t]] n. 1) the act of dying; the end of life Compare brain death 2) the state of being dead 3) extinction; destruction 4) (usu. cap.) the agent of death personified, usu. represented as the Grim Reaper 5) rel loss or absence of spiritual… …

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  • 47death house — noun the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution • Syn: ↑death row • Hypernyms: ↑cellblock, ↑ward * * * noun : the section of a prison for person awaiting execution * * * a building or part of a prison in which… …

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  • 48put to the sword — KILL, execute, put to death, murder, butcher, slaughter, massacre, cut down; poetic/literary slay. → sword * * * put to the sword see under ↑sword • • • Main Entry: ↑put put to the sword 1. (of armies, etc) to kill (prisoners, etc) by the sword 2 …

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  • 49death — noun 1) her father s death Syn: demise, dying, end, passing, loss of life; eternal rest, quietus; murder, assassination, execution, slaughter, massacre; informal curtains; formal decease; archaic expiry Ant: life …

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  • 50death row — the prisoners who are to be executed or put to death    The priest wants to visit the prisoners on death row …

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