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
puts away
verb
1
as in inters
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
- inters
- buries
- tombs
- inhumes
- hides
- hearses
- entombs
- lays
- inurns
- enshrines
- reburies
- immures
- reinters
- conceals
- shades
- curtains
- shields
- obscures
- covers
- cloaks
- ensconces
- enshrouds
- coffins
- shrouds
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- exhumes
- disinters
- displays
- unearths
- reveals
- shows
- burns
- discloses
- exhibits
- exposes
- discovers
- cremates
- bares
- uncoffins
2
as in assassinates
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
- assassinates
- murders
- slays
- takes out
- knocks off
- executes
- rubs out
- does in
- gets
- bumps off
- kills
- blows away
- dispatches
- neutralizes
- snuffs
- terminates
- shoots
- destroys
- does away with
- whacks
- cuts down
- offs
- carries off
- liquidates
- shoots down
- ices
- croaks
- slaughters
- blots out
- wipes out
- claims
- zaps
- butchers
- fells
- eliminates
- smites
- mows (down)
- massacres
- eradicates
- annihilates
- exterminates
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- raises
- restores
- revives
- animates
- resurrects
- resuscitates
3
as in consumes
to take in as food can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting Synonyms & Similar Words
- consumes
- eats
- puts down
- tucks (away or in)
- devours
- partakes (of)
- licks
- chews
- ingests
- swallows
- digests
- tastes
- pigs out
- gnaws (at or on)
- downs
- scoffs
- nibbles (on)
- wolfs
- relishes
- gulps
- picks (at)
- chows (down on)
- gobbles (up or down)
- slops
- gluts (on)
- snarfs (down)
- savors
- laps
- mouths (down)
- polishes off
- feasts
- swills
- dines
- banquets
- gorges
- gums
- lunches
- bolts
- breakfasts
- snacks
- fares
- nurses
- gormandizes
- regales
- munches
- dispatches
- savours
- sups
- noshes