put away
Verb
-
Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape (synset 201350360)
"The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"is a type of: confine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
-
Throw or cast away (synset 202227100)
"Put away your worries"is a type of: get rid of, remove - dispose ofsubtypes:
- unlearn - discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
- deep-six, give it the deep six - toss out; get rid of
- jettison - throw away, of something encumbering
- junk, scrap, trash - dispose of (something useless or old)
- waste - get rid of
- dump - throw away as refuse
- retire - dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- abandon - forsake, leave behind
- liquidize, sell out, sell up - sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
- de-access - dispose of by selling
- close out - terminate by selling off or disposing of
-
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail (synset 202500005)
"The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
-
Stop using (synset 201618895)
"the children were told to put away their toys"; "the students put away their notebooks"same as: put aside
-
Kill gently, as with an injection (synset 201329815)
"the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowinglysame as: put to sleep
-
Eat up;
Usually refers to a considerable quantity of food (synset 201175505)"My son tucked in a whole pizza"entail: eat - eat a meal; take a mealis a type of: eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table -
Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily (synset 200780930)
"it's time for you to put away childish things"same as: put aside
Found on Word Lists
Other Searches
- Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
- Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
- Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing