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Put away   /pʊt əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Put away

verb
1.
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.  Synonyms: lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, shut away, shut up.  "She locked her jewels in the safe"
3.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put behind bars, remand.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
4.
Stop using.  Synonym: put aside.  "The students put away their notebooks"
5.
Kill gently, as with an injection.  Synonym: put to sleep.
6.
Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food.  Synonyms: tuck away, tuck in.
7.
Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily.  Synonym: put aside.






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"Put away" Quotes from Famous Books



... admonished, I bade my son put away the Book, and we retired from the fireside and sat by oursels in the shadow of a corner; and well it was for us that we did so, and a providential thing that the worthy woman had been moved to give us the admonition; for we were not many minutes within the mirk and obscurity into which we had removed, ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression." "Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath." "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." The example of our blessed Lord specially teaches the same lessen. Calmly ...
— Life and Conduct • J. Cameron Lees

... of expression, it assumes a curl of triumphant scorn that would be worthy of Mephistopheles. A thick, heavy mass of jet-black ringlets falls over his left cheek almost to his collarless stock, while on the right temple it is parted and put away with the smooth carefulness of a girl's, and shines most unctuously with "thy incomparable oil, Macassar."' Willis was always interested in dress, being himself a born dandy, and he was inclined to judge a man by the cut of his coat and the set of his hat. On this occasion ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... this story she would say that she had distinctly seen the chips fly, and heard the noise of the chopping. She used to show the apron, which she never wore again, but kept, carefully put away, to be shown to anyone who liked to ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... your savin's—'Bert an' me, every bit of it—stowed an' put away where they can't find it, not if they hunted for weeks. I came upstairs to tell about it, and where we've stowed it. Now be you goin' to put 'Bert and me ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


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