Put Back

Definition: Put Back

Put Back

Verb

1. Put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them".

2. Cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000".

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Synonyms: Put Back

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Location

Put back, replace; (restore).

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Restoration

Restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall.

Crosswords: Put Back

Not everything can be put back together, no matter how much you want it. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

Get put back together (Bent; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

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A huge sting ray off the Carolinas. This fish was put back in the water alive. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. (reference)

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In consequence of these injuries, the (r)Orion had put back to Toulon.

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Health

After the pulses of laser energy vaporize the corneal tissue, the flap is put back into position. (references)

Business

The revenue is being put back into Telekom. (references)

Recently, the PIA management has decided to put back into commission its grounded Boeing 747-200s and two Airbuses in time for the Haj (Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca) airlifts scheduled for January 2000. In order to facilitate this operation, PIA has signed an agreement with General Electric for the supply of engines and spare parts. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

In March Minister Tjipilica announced that a colonial-era law granting civil authority to the churches is to be put back into effect. (references)

Economic History

Uae

In 2001, it was put back on due to limited pirating of US patent-protected pharmaceutical products. (references)

Ukraine

A large overhang of underutilized industrial capacity facilitated the economic growth that began in 2000. The economy is likely to run into trouble within the next two years as remaining excess capacity is put back into production unless the pace of new investment picks up. Unfortunately, the investment climate in Ukraine remains poor with both domestic and foreign direct investment hampered by a number of structural barriers. (references)

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

Expressions using "put back": put back in place ♦ To put back. Additional references.

Albanian

vë në vend (catch up, emplace, expiate, make good, make up, push on, reset, set), ngadalësoj (decelerate, hold up, let down, loose, make slower, retard, slack up, slacken), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, take back, throw back), ‏أخر الساعة (slow), ‏أخر (delay, detain, intercept, postpone, protract, retard, set back, wait), ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, suspend, table, value, yep, yes). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), слагам пак на мястото му, връщам назад (set back, throw back), връщам (give back, hand back, head back, pay back, recall, reimburse, repay, restore, return, roll back, send back, take back, turn in), отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, stay, suspend), обръщам курса (put about), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put over, retard, set back, sidetrack, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady). (various references)

Chinese 

回�"� (recover and put back to use; recycle). (various references)

Czech

vrátit (counter, give back, hand back, remit, repay, restore, retrieve, return, take back, turn back). (various references)

Finnish

siirtää kello eteenpäin (put forward). (various references)

French

retarder (put off), repousser (put off), remettre en arrière, remettre � sa place, réinstaller. (various references)

German

nachgestellt (postpositive). (various references)

Greek 

ξαναβάζω (put again). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חזיר (bring back, get back, give back, recall, recover, repay, restore, return). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavet (push back, to put back, to set back, to throw back), visszatesz (reinstate, relaid, replace, resettle, to put back, to put in, to reinstate, to relay, to remit), visszarak (relaid, replace, reset, to relay, to reset, to resettle), visszahelyez (reinstate, re-lay, to put in, to put up, to reinstate, to remit, to resettle). (various references)

Italian

rinviare (adjourn, defer, hold over, lay by, postpone, put off, recommit, refer, return, send back, throw back), rimettere a posto (reset), rientrare in porto, rallentare (check, decelerate, die down, reduce speed, slacken, slow, slow down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繰り戻す (to put back), 戻す (to put back, to restore, to return). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くりもどす (to put back), もどす (to put back, to restore, to return). (various references)

Manx

meayllaghey (bald, bare, damp, depilate, depilation, flatten). (various references)

Pig Latin

utpay ackbay

Portuguese

repelir (abrogate, beat off, fight off, foil, rebuff, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, resist, stave off, ward off), regressar (come back, go back, regress, return, revert), recusar (balk, challenge, confute, decline, deny, dismiss, pill, pish, rebut, refuse, reject, reprobate, repulse, set aside, turn down, withhold), recolocar, atrasar (be late, defer, delay, hold back, retard). (various references)

Romanian

scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, purge, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), refuza (decline, deny, disallow, foreclose, jib at, rebut, refuse, reject, repudiate, repulse, resist), de înapoi, împinge înapoi (back). (various references)

Russian 

поставить обратно, положить обратно, передвигать назад. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti na mesto (replace). (various references)

Spanish

poner en su sitio (put away), volver a poner en su sitio, volver a poner, volver (abduce, call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), retrasar (back up, check, delay, hold up, pull back, retard, set back, sojourn, take back, turn back), restituir (disgorge, return, throw back), regresar (call back, come back, comeback, get back, get in, go back, return, take back, throw back), 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 away, put by, retain, save, shelter, tend, treasure, wait, ward, watch), devolver (bring back, devolve, give back, hand back, hit back, pay back, refund, render, repay, restore, return, send back, send in, take back, throw back), beberse (drain, knock back, sink), beber (boose, booze, drink, imbibe, indulge, partake of, swig, wet one's whistle), atrasar (hold up, set back, slow down), aplazar (adjourn, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, put over, reserve, respite, sleep over, table, wait). (various references)

Swedish

vrida tillbaka, lägga tillbaka, hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, short circuit, snag, stay, stymie, trammel, traverse), återvända (get back, go back, return, turn back). (various references)

Turkish

yerine koymak (bestow, case, clap, posit, put up, relay, replace, slot into, spot), sekte vurmak (impede, interrupt), geriye almak (set back), geri koymak, geri dönmek (hark back, regain, return, return to, turn back), geciktirmek (adjourn, delay, hold up, impede, keep back, postpone, procrastinate, retard, set back, sidetrack, stall, stall off, stave off), engel olmak (baffle, balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put off, scotch, shackle, thwart). (various references)

Ukrainian

гальмувати (back off, bar, brake, chock, skid), поставити назад. (various references)

reponat, repone, reponent, reponentes, reponentur, reponeres, repones, reponi, reponite, reposita, repositae, repositam, repositi, repositum, repositus, reposuerunt, reposuit, reposuitque, restituo. (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

-1 letter: backup.

-2 letters: caput, kaput, pucka.

-3 letters: abut, back, buck, pack, pact, puck, tabu, tack, tuba, tuck.

-4 letters: act, apt, auk, bap, bat, but, cab, cap, cat, cub, cup, cut, kab, kat, pac, pat, pub, put, tab, tap, tau, tub, tup, uta.

-5 letters: ab, at, ba, ka, pa, ta, up, ut.

+3 letters: bankruptcy.

+5 letters: bankruptcies.