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Put up

verb
Word Frequency: 11.4

Definitions

1.verbTo place in a high location.
"Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins."
2.verbTo hang; to mount.
"Many people put up messages on their refrigerators."
3.verbTo style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.
4.verb(with 'to') To cajole or dare to do something.
"I think someone put him up to it."
5.verbTo store away.
"Be sure to put up the tools when you finish."
6.verbTo house; to shelter; to take in.
"We can put you up for the night."
7.verbTo present, especially in "put up a fight".
"That last fighter put up quite a fight."
8.verbTo endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
9.verbTo provide funds in advance.
"Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight."
10.verbTo build a structure.
11.verbTo make available; to offer.
"I put my first child up for adoption."
12.verb(of meat, fruit and vegetables) To can; to process by sterilizing and storing in a bottle or can.
13.verbTo score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
14.verbTo stop at an hotel or a tavern for entertainment.
15.adjective(of an event) Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.

Synonyms

standraiseendureabidebrooksufferset uptoleratecontributeput forwardprovideoffer
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