verb
- Place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.
- usage: "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
- Throw or cast away.
- usage: "Put away your worries"
- Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.
- usage: "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- synonyms: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, remand
- Stop using.
- usage: "the children were told to put away their toys"; "the students put away their notebooks"
- synonyms: put aside
- Kill gently, as with an injection.
- usage: "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"
- synonyms: put to sleep
- Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food.
- usage: "My son tucked in a whole pizza"
- Turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily.
- usage: "it's time for you to put away childish things"
- synonyms: put aside
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