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Definition of Put up

1. Verb. Place so as to be noticed. "Post a warning at the dump"

2. Verb. Mount or put up. "Offer resistance"

3. Verb. Construct, build, or erect. "Raise a barn"

4. Verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. "Sam cannot put up Sue "; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

5. Verb. Make available for sale at an auction. "The dealer put up three of his most valuable paintings for auction"

6. Verb. Preserve in a can or tin. "The chefs put up the vegetables"; "Tinned foods are not very tasty"

7. Verb. Provide housing for. "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

8. Verb. Provide. "The city has to put up half the required amount"

9. Verb. Propose as a candidate for some honor.

Definition of Put up

1. Verb. (transitive) To place in a high location. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To hang or mount. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To cajole or dare to do something. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To store away. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To house, shelter, or take in. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To present, ''especially in'' "put up a fight". ¹

7. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To endure, put up with. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Put Up

put through the mangle put through the wringer put to put to bed put to bed with a shovel put to death put to rest put to sleep put to the sword put to the test

put to use put to work put together put two and two together put under put up (current term) put up a fight put up one's dukes put up or shut up put up the shutters

put up with put upon put words in somebody's mouth put words in someone's mouth putable putamen putamens putamina

Literary usage of Put up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... the rector furtively and nervously glanced down, and instinctively put up his hand to feel if the remark was true), "or your coat rusty at the elbows. ..."

2. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy (1896)
"The very conflict his Truth brought, in accomplishing its purpose of Love, meant, all the way through, " put up thy sword," but the sword must have been ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"This is a line of Extra Super, or Strictly First-Class Writing-Papers, linen stock, put up in handsome colored enameled paper, lithographed wrappers, ..."

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