verb
- To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.
- usage: "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
- synonyms: trouble, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
- Put out considerable effort.
- usage: "He put out the same for seven managers"
- Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion.
- usage: "smother fires"
- synonyms: smother
- Thrust or extend out.
- usage: "He held out his hand"; "point a finger"; "extend a hand"; "the bee exserted its sting"
- synonyms: exsert, stretch out, extend, hold out, stretch forth
- Put out, as of a candle or a light.
- usage: "Douse the lights"
- synonyms: douse
- Be sexually active.
- usage: "She is supposed to put out"
- Cause to be out on a fielding play.
- synonyms: retire
- Retire.
- usage: "he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field"
- Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale.
- usage: "publish a magazine or newspaper"
- Administer an anesthetic drug to.
- usage: "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"; "anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth"
- synonyms: anesthetize, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anaesthetise, put under
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