PUT BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put back mean? 

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

1. put something back where it belongs

2. cost a certain amount

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put something back where it belongs

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

put back; replace

Context example:

please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

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

hang up (put a telephone receiver back in its cradle)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cost a certain amount

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

knock back; put back; set back

Context example:

My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000

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

be; cost (be priced at)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

However, Mars does not retain enough carbon dioxide that could practically be put back into the atmosphere to warm Mars.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

She stirred herself, put back the curtain, and I saw her face, pale, wasted, but quite composed: she looked so little changed that my fear was instantly dissipated.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I put back the clothes from my face, and found, to my surprise, that all was dim around.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The piece of skull that is removed is usually put back in place after the brain problem has been treated.

(Craniotomy, NCI Dictionary)

Agnes laughingly put back some scattered locks of his grey hair, that he might see us better.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back—put back, sir, into Port of Spain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We had gone on the May Day for a round voyage of seven days, but a hogshead got loose and started one of our plates, so that we had to put back into port for twelve hours.

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

The minute he was put into bed on one side, he rolled out on the other, and made for the door, only to be ignominiously caught up by the tail of his little toga and put back again, which lively performance was kept up till the young man's strength gave out, when he devoted himself to roaring at the top of his voice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)