PUT AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put away mean? 

• PUT AWAY (verb)
  The verb PUT AWAY has 7 senses:

1. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

2. throw or cast away

3. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

4. stop using

5. kill gently, as with an injection

6. eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food

7. turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily

  Familiarity information: PUT AWAY used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lock; lock away; lock in; lock up; put away; shut away; shut up

Context example:

She locked her jewels in the safe

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

confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

Context example:

Put away your worries

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

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put away"):

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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Context example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

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

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to put away the prisoners

Sense 4

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 5

Meaning:

Kill gently, as with an injection

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

put away; put to sleep

Context example:

the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep

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

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

put away; tuck away; tuck in

Context example:

My son tucked in a whole pizza

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

eat up; finish; polish off (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table)

"Put away" entails doing...:

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They put away more bread

Sense 7

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 away" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

No, your grandfather kindly offered us his best, and Aunt March actually sent some, but Father put away a little for Beth, and dispatched the rest to the Soldier's Home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the end of two hours Thomas Mugridge put away knife and stone and held out his hand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He could not bear me; and in putting me from him he tried, as I believe, to put away the notion that I had any claim upon him—and succeeded.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

St. John put away my books and his, locked his desk, and said—Now, Jane, you shall take a walk; and with me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“With as much beer as you can put away,” said the other, “and a flask of Gascon wine on Sabbaths.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ve heard that with you German politicians when an agent has done his work you are not sorry to see him put away.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, Now all is quite safe; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, he said, I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had been almost fluttered for a few minutes, and still remained so sensibly animated as to put away her work, move Pug from her side, and give all her attention and all the rest of her sofa to her husband.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)