TO PUT OUT

Definition: TO PUT OUT

TO PUT OUT

1. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO PUT OUT

Right, the chick is gonna have to put out before she even gets in. (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)

Sure you sold Arthur down the crazy river, but we can use that spilt milk to put out your burnt bridge. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch. (The Roaring Twenties; writing credit: Mark Hellinger; Jerry Wald)

To put out the fire ("Maria, Maria"; performing artist: Santana/Wyclef Jean)

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Books

• You'd Better Have a Hose If You Want to Put Out the Fire: The Complete Guide to Crisis and Risk Communications (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Civil Liberties

China

The publishing industry consists of three kinds of book businesses: Roughly 500 Government-sanctioned publishing houses, smaller independent publishers that cooperate with official publishing houses to put out more daring publications, and an underground press. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "TO PUT OUT": To put out of court ♦ To put out of the way ♦ To put out to grass ♦ To put out to nurse. Additional references.

Chinese 

發表 (to issue, to publish), 做出 (to issue), 出版 (to come off the press, to publish). (various references)

Danish

saette ud af drift (to put out of operation, to put out of service). (various references)

Dutch

buiten bedrijf stellen (to put out of operation, to put out of service, to take out of service). (various references)

French

mettre hors d'usage (to put out of operation, to put out of service), mettre hors de service (to put out of operation, to put out of service). (various references)

German

auslöschen (annihilate, blot out, efface, eliminating, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, obliteration, put out, raze, snuff, snuff out, to annihilate, to blow out, to efface, to obliterate, to raze, wipe off, wipe out). (various references)

Greek 

θέτω εκτός υπηρεσίας (to put out of operation, to put out of service), θέτω εκτός χρήσεως (to put out of operation, to put out of service). (various references)

Hungarian

kitereget (to hang out, to lay out, to unfold, to ventilate, unfold), kinyújt (hold out, protrude, put out, reach, roll out, to dilate, to draw out, to elongate, to hold out, to lengthen, to protrude, to roll out, to stretch), kikölcsönöz, kihajt (to burgeon, to come up, to expel, to sprit, to sprout, to stool), kihajózik, kificamít (dislocate, luxate, to disjoint, to dislocate, to pull out of joint, to sprain, to wrench, wrest), közzétesz (advertise, advertize, divulge, insert, publish, to bring out, to descry, to disclose, to divulge, to make common, to post, to set forth), előállít (to generate, to produce, to turn out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

消し止める (to extinguish), 出す (to send), 困らせる (to embarrass, to inconvenience, to put on the spot, to trouble with questions). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"まらせる (to embarrass, to inconvenience, to put on the spot, to trouble with questions), けしとめる (to extinguish), � す (to send). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay utpay outay

utan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: output, putout.

-3 letters: potto, putto.

-4 letters: otto, pout, putt, toot, tout, tutu.

-5 letters: oot, opt, out, pot, put, too, top, tot, tup, tut, upo.

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