Put Away

Definition: Put Away

Put Away

Verb

1. Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe".

2. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

3. Lock up in jail.

4. Kill gently, as with an injection, as of pet animals.

5. Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza".

6. Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily; "She turned away from her painting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Put Away

Divorce

Verb: live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse, put away; wear the horns.

Incogitancy

Put away thought; unbend the mind, relax the mind, divert the mind, veg out.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Crosswords: Put Away

Situation quiet; the Captain's been put away for the night (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts)

I PUT AWAY MY TOYS (Big Mess; performing artist: Devo)

So I put away the fight (I Belong To You; performing artist: Lenny Kravitz)

Put away the crack before the crack puts you away (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mafia Wipeout: How the Feds Put Away an Entire Mob Family (reference)

• Put Away Your Past: Finding Your Worth in the Eyes of God (Inner Beauty Series, 2) (reference)

• Rode Hard, Put Away Dead (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears Pick Up and Put Away (Book and Plush Gift Set) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Strike's on - they put away the spools. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendous piles of spikes will be sorted out according to size and put away in kegs for salvage purposes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

My son, it minds me of a day Left half a life behind, That I have prayed to put away For ever from my mind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "put away": put away from ♦ To put away. Additional references.

Afrikaans

wegsteek (store, stow), insit (enter, insert, put in, stow). (various references)

Albanian

përlaj (bag, carry away, collar, devour, filch, mulct, pick, plunder, poach, pocket, purloin, strip, wangle), rras në burg, mbyll në çmendinë (certify, lock up), lë peng (hock, impawn, pledge), lë mënjanë (pass over, put aside). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وفر (economize, put by, put by smth., save, set apart, set aside), ‏وضعه في مكانه المألوف, ‏وضعه جانبا (side), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏أنحاه جانبا (push aside, step aside), ‏أطلق زوجته (repudiate), ‏دفن (burial, bury, earth, entomb, funeral, inhumation, inhume, inter, interment, lay, lay to rest). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, remise, renounce, repudiate, retract, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), излапвам (demolish, engorge, polish off), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, neglect, overboard, pass up, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on), прибирам (gather, get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put up, remove, retract, round up, take in, truss, unship), зарязвам (abandon, cut out, drop off, overboard, pack in, put on the shelf, quit, run out, stand up, throw over, throw up, walk out on), нагъвам (cockle, corrugate, flex, fold, gobble, lap, punish, ruckle, scoff, tuck away, tuck into, walk into, wolf), изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink, drink up, lower, shift, suck down, suck up, take off), отплувам (cast off, get under way, pull out, put, put forth, put off, put out, sail, set sail, weigh), убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), раздигам (clear away), развеждам се с, разтребвам (clean, clear up, do, pick up, tidy), слагам на мястото му, слагам настрана (lay aside, lay by, put aside, put by, set apart, set aside, set by), скътвам (lay up, put by, reserve, salt away, salt up, sock away, treasure up), не обръщам внимание на (disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, push aside, shuck). (various references)

Chinese 

戢 (collect oneself). (various references)

Czech

odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away). (various references)

Dutch

wegzetten (store), wegleggen (store), wegbergen (lock up, shut up, stow), stallen (dock), opsluiten (gaol, imprison, jail, lock up, shut up, stow), opbergen (store, stow), op een zijspoor zetten, op een zýspoor zetten (dock), inzetten (insert, intone, kick off, put in, raise, stow), insluiten (imply, include, lock up, shut up, stow, surround), inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put in, stow), indoen (enter, insert, put in, stow), bewaren (conserve, guard, keep, look after, maintain, preserve, store, watch over), bergen (conserve, keep, maintain, Mons, preserve, rescue, save, store, stow). (various references)

Esperanto

garaĝi (dock), formeti (store), enmeti (insert, put in, stow), enfermi (stow). (various references)

Faeroese

beina burtur (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, store, throw away, turn away). (various references)

Finnish

panna talteen (store). (various references)

French

mettre (pull on, put, put down, put in, put on). (various references)

German

zurücklegen (achieve, act, carry out, cover, do, lay aside, lay away, lay back, lean back, log, log up, make, perform, put aside, put back, put off, recline, replace, replacement, return, store, take off), weggelegt. (various references)

Greek 

φυλάω στην άκρη (put by), αποταμιεύω (salt away, save, to save). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחסוך (economize, put by, save, spare, stint, withhold), לכלוא (corral, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lock up, shut in), ל�"חביא (conceal, cover up, hide, secrete). (various references)

Hungarian

végez valakivel, eltesz (put aside, put down, set aside, to conserve, to pigeonhole, to put away, to put down, to stow, to take away, to tuck away), eltaszít (beat off, push off, repudiate, to abject, to push off, to push out, to repudiate, to stall off), elûz (banish, chase away, dispel, eject, oust). (various references)

Indonesian

menyingkirkan (evacuate, lay aside, obviate). (various references)

Italian

riporre (pack away, pin on, put), rinchiudere (comprehend, confine, coop, enclose, immure, inclose, include, lock up, shut away, shut in), mettere via (set aside, stow away), far fuori (polish off), accantonare (accommodate, appropriate, push aside, set aside, shelve, shunt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

片付ける　 (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up), 片付ける (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up), 仕舞う (to close, to do something completely, to finish, to put an end to, to put away), 仕舞い込む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しまう (to close, to do something completely, to finish, to put an end to, to put away), しまい�"む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away), かたづける (to put away, to put in order, to straighten up, to tidy up). (various references)

Manx

cur ersooyl (discharge, dismiss, give away, send away). (various references)

Pig Latin

utpay awayay.(various references)

Portuguese

pôr de lado (lay aside, overrule, put by, relegate, reserve, salt away, set apart, set aside, supersede), guardar (bestow, bin, bosom, coffer, coffin, conserve, defend, guard, keep, lay up, look after, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put, reserve, retain, save, shield, stow, tend, tuck, watch over), economizar (economize, husband, lay up, save, set by, spare), descartar (discard, forwent, phase out). (various references)

Romanian

pune de o parte (lay aside, lay by), porni (begin, commence, goad, move, sail, set, set in motion, stand, start, start for, take to, unleash, urge), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), lãsa (abandon, alight, allow, break, cast off, cease, create, diminish, discontinue, drop, fail, forsake, free, leave, leave behind, let, quit, relinquish, renounce, secure, settle, sink, sprout, stop, suffer, weaken), gara (dock), da înapoi (blench, check, climb, fall back, move back, recede, recoil, repay), ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap). (various references)

Russian 

убирать (clear, clear away, clear out, furl, remove, take away, tidy up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabaciti (throw back), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, slay, wipe out, zap), strpati (cram, cram into), staviti na mesto, skloniti (clear, clear away, dismount, hide, lay by, refuge, remove, take away). (various references)

Spanish

poner en su sitio (put back), poner en el garaje, poner aparte (keep, lay aside, put aside, set apart, set aside), zamparse (demolish, guzzle, punish, scoff, tuck), repudiar (disavow, disown, repudiate), recluir en un manicomio, guardar (bear, bosom, conserve, envision, fence, filibeg, guard, hang on, herd, hold, hold back, hold on to, house, keep, keep back, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay up, leave in, look, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put back, put by, retain, save, shelter, tend, treasure, wait, ward, watch), envainar (put up, sheathe), encarcelar (confine, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lock up, prison, quod, send down), devolverse a, desechar (cast aside, cast away, discard, discount, dismiss, lay aside, put aside, reject, scrap, shuck off, throw aside, throw away, throw out, throwaway), descartar (discard, discount, dismiss, exclude, foreclose, reject, repudiate, scrap), ahorrar (hang, husband, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay up, put aside, put by, save, save up, set by, spare). (various references)

Swedish

skaffa bort, lägga undan (hive, hold, lay aside, lay by, pigeonhole, pigeon-hole, put by, save, set apart, set aside), förråda (betray, blow, reveal, sell), bura in (jug, lock up). (various references)

Turkish

tıkınmak (batten, bolt, cram, engorge, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself, tuck in), silip süpürmek (clean out, dispatch, gobble, gobble up, mop up, polish off, punish, sweep), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away), kenara koymak (lay aside, lay by, lay down, put aside, put by, set apart, set aside, take aside), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), hakkından gelmek (carry off, get the better of, let smb. have it, overcome, overmaster, overpower, vanquish), denize açılmak (put off, put out to sea, put to sea, sail, shove off, stand off, stand out to sea), biriktirmek (accumulate, amass, collect, gather, keep back, lay aside, lay by, put aside, put by, roll up, salt, save, set apart, set by, setaside, treasure up), bir kenara bırakmak (leave aside, put aside, wave aside), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), akıl hastanesine kapatmak, öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Turkmen 

gizlenmek (conceal), gizlemek (be concealed). (various references)

Ukrainian

усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, depose, dethrone, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, smooth, smooth away, take off, vanish), ховати (bield, conceal, cover, embowel, entomb, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, secrete, shut up, stash, tomb, tuck), прибирати (bedeck, char, clean up, deck, decorate, do out, rid, smarten, tidy). (various references)

abdi, abdiam, abditis, abdito, abdo, amore, amoris, amotis, amoto, amotus, amove, amoveamus, amovebis, amoverent, amoveret, amoverunt, amovet, amovete, amovi, amovit, exuo, remove, removere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: watap.

-3 letters: atap, away, paty, tapa, yaup, yawp.

-4 letters: apt, awa, pat, paw, pay, put, pya, tap, tau, taw, tup, twa, uta, wap, wat, way, yap, yaw, yup.

-5 letters: aa, at, aw, ay, pa, ta, up, ut, ya.