put away
verb
put away; putting away; puts away
transitive verb
1
a
: discard, renounce
to put grief away is disloyal to the memory of the departed
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: divorce
2
: to eat or drink up : consume
3
a
: to confine especially in a mental institution
b
: bury
c
: kill
Synonyms
- bury
- entomb
- hearse
- inhume
- inter
- lay
- tomb
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Example Sentences
the naval authorities put away the body yesterday
Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
put away
verb
1
as in to inter
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea the naval authorities put away the body yesterday Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- inter
- bury
- tomb
- inhume
- hide
- lay
- hearse
- inurn
- entomb
- shade
- conceal
- shield
- obscure
- enshrine
- curtain
- cloak
- coffin
- immure
- cover
- shroud
- reinter
- ensconce
- enshroud
- rebury
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unearth
- burn
- display
- show
- disinter
- reveal
- disclose
- discover
- exhibit
- bare
- exhume
- expose
- cremate
- uncoffin
2
as in to murder
to put to death deliberately after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover Synonyms & Similar Words
- murder
- assassinate
- rub out
- take out
- execute
- slay
- bump off
- off
- get
- kill
- dispatch
- blow away
- knock off
- cut down
- shoot down
- carry off
- do away with
- neutralize
- do in
- snuff
- whack
- terminate
- ice
- liquidate
- slaughter
- shoot
- destroy
- blot out
- wipe out
- croak
- fell
- butcher
- mow (down)
- claim
- zap
- eliminate
- smite
- massacre
- eradicate
- exterminate
- annihilate
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- restore
- raise
- revive
- animate
- resurrect
- resuscitate
3
as in to eat
to take in as food can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting Synonyms & Similar Words
- eat
- consume
- put down
- tuck (away or in)
- partake (of)
- devour
- lick
- pig out
- ingest
- chew
- polish off
- down
- swallow
- digest
- mouth (down)
- snarf (down)
- wolf
- gobble (up or down)
- chow (down on)
- taste
- nibble (on)
- scoff
- glut (on)
- gnaw (at or on)
- relish
- gulp
- dine
- slop
- banquet
- gorge
- swill
- savor
- pick (at)
- lunch
- lap
- feast
- sup
- breakfast
- gum
- bolt
- fare
- munch
- snack
- nurse
- dispatch
- savour
- regale
- nosh
- gormandize