put up
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)
- (transitive) to place in a high location
- Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
- (transitive) to hang or mount
- Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to cajole or dare to do something
- I think someone put him up to it.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to store away
- Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to house, shelter, or take in
- We can put you up for the night.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to present, especially in "put up a fight"
- That last fighter put up quite a fight.
- They didn't put up much resistance.
- (transitive) to endure, put up with, tolerate
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
- Dionysius of Syracuse, in his exile, was made to stand without dore [...]; he wisely put it up, and laid the fault where it was, on his own pride and scorn, which in his prosperity he had formerly showed others.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
- (transitive) to provide funds in advance
- Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
- (transitive) to build a structure
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1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess[1]:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
- 1970, Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi", Ladies of the Canyon:
- They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
- They paved paradise
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Usage notes[edit]
- The object in senses 1-5 can come before or after the particle. If it is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.
- In sense 6 the object must always come after the particle.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to place in a high location
to hang or mount
to store away
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to present
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to put up with — see put up with
