PUT ASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put aside mean? 

• PUT ASIDE (verb)
  The verb PUT ASIDE has 2 senses:

1. stop using

2. turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily

  Familiarity information: PUT ASIDE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT ASIDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop using

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

put aside; put away

Context example:

the students put away their notebooks

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

put aside; put away

Context example:

it's time for you to put away childish things

Hypernyms (to "put aside" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

We may put aside this idea of Baynes’s that Garcia’s servants were concerned in the matter.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You think me unsteady: easily swayed by the whim of the moment, easily tempted, easily put aside.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You may be able to ignite a favorite project that you were once passionate about but had to put aside due to lack of time or funding.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She put aside her work, as she was used to do when we were seriously discussing anything; and gave me her whole attention.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"There is Mr. Butler," she said one afternoon, when grammar and arithmetic and poetry had been put aside.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The unhappiness produced by the knowledge of that engagement had been a little put aside by Elizabeth Martin's calling at Mrs. Goddard's a few days afterwards.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The aperture was so screened and narrow, that curtain or shutter had been deemed unnecessary; and when I stooped down and put aside the spray of foliage shooting over it, I could see all within.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside, in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Take a second look at projects you developed earlier in the year that had to be put aside because of a lack of funds or time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thus, in the course of half an hour with his forms, Martin could frame up a dozen or so storiettes, which he put aside and filled in at his convenience.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)