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
putting away
verb
1
as in burying
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
- burying
- interring
- tombing
- hearsing
- inhuming
- hiding
- entombing
- immuring
- laying
- reinterring
- inurning
- enshrining
- concealing
- shading
- coffining
- shielding
- obscuring
- enshrouding
- ensconcing
- reburying
- curtaining
- covering
- shrouding
- cloaking
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- burning
- exhuming
- unearthing
- displaying
- showing
- exhibiting
- disclosing
- disinterring
- revealing
- discovering
- exposing
- cremating
- baring
- uncoffining
2
as in assassinating
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
- assassinating
- murdering
- taking out
- doing in
- rubbing out
- knocking off
- executing
- bumping off
- slaying
- doing away with
- getting
- killing
- blowing away
- cutting down
- dispatching
- carrying off
- shooting down
- neutralizing
- shooting
- terminating
- snuffing
- blotting out
- whacking
- liquidating
- icing
- offing
- destroying
- slaughtering
- wiping out
- croaking
- claiming
- mowing (down)
- eliminating
- zapping
- felling
- smiting
- eradicating
- butchering
- massacring
- exterminating
- annihilating
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- raising
- restoring
- reviving
- animating
- resurrecting
- resuscitating
3
as in consuming
to take in as food can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting Synonyms & Similar Words
- consuming
- eating
- putting down
- partaking (of)
- tucking (away or in)
- devouring
- licking
- chewing
- ingesting
- pigging out
- polishing off
- glutting (on)
- swallowing
- picking (at)
- nibbling (on)
- gobbling (up or down)
- chowing (down on)
- mouthing (down)
- gnawing (at or on)
- snarfing (down)
- digesting
- tasting
- downing
- dining
- gulping
- scoffing
- relishing
- wolfing
- slopping
- swilling
- savoring
- lapping
- gorging
- banqueting
- feasting
- munching
- gumming
- supping
- bolting
- lunching
- regaling
- gormandizing
- snacking
- nursing
- savouring
- breakfasting
- faring
- dispatching
- noshing