put out

put out
verb
1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to (Freq. 2)
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Sorry to trouble you, but...

Syn: ↑trouble, ↑inconvenience, ↑disoblige, ↑discommode, ↑incommode, ↑bother
Derivationally related forms: ↑botheration (for: ↑bother), ↑bother (for: ↑bother), ↑inconvenience (for: ↑inconvenience), ↑trouble (for: ↑trouble)
Hypernyms: ↑affect, ↑impact, ↑bear upon, ↑bear on, ↑touch on, ↑touch
Hyponyms: ↑straiten, ↑distress
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

2. put out considerable effort (Freq. 1)
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He put out the same for seven managers

Hypernyms: ↑produce, ↑make, ↑create
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

3. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion (Freq. 1)
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smother fires

Syn: ↑smother
Hypernyms: ↑snuff out, ↑extinguish
Entailment: ↑cover
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

4. thrust or extend out (Freq. 1)
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He held out his hand

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point a finger

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extend a hand

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the bee exserted its sting

Syn: ↑exsert, ↑stretch out, ↑extend, ↑hold out, ↑stretch forth
Derivationally related forms: ↑extensible (for: ↑extend), ↑extendible (for: ↑extend), ↑extensor (for: ↑extend)
Hypernyms: ↑gesticulate, ↑gesture, ↑motion
Hyponyms: ↑hyperextend
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

5. put out, as of a candle or a light
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Douse the lights

Syn: ↑douse
Hypernyms: ↑snuff out, ↑blow out, ↑extinguish, ↑quench
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

6. be sexually active
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She is supposed to put out

Hypernyms: ↑be
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

7. cause to be out on a fielding play
Syn: ↑retire
Derivationally related forms: ↑putout
Topics: ↑baseball, ↑baseball game
Hypernyms: ↑toy, ↑fiddle, ↑diddle, ↑play
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

8. retire
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he was put out at third base on a long throw from left field

Derivationally related forms: ↑putout
Topics: ↑baseball, ↑baseball game
Hypernyms: ↑play
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

9. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
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publish a magazine or newspaper

Syn: ↑publish, ↑bring out, ↑issue, ↑release
Derivationally related forms: ↑release (for: ↑release), ↑issue (for: ↑issue), ↑issuer (for: ↑issue), ↑publication (for: ↑publish), ↑publisher (for: ↑publish), ↑publishing (for: ↑publish)
Hypernyms: ↑publicize, ↑publicise, ↑air, ↑bare
Hyponyms: ↑edit
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Sam and Sue put out the movie

10. administer an anesthetic drug to
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The patient must be anesthetized before the operation

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anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth

Ant: ↑bring to (for: ↑anesthetize)
Derivationally related forms: ↑anaesthetic (for: ↑anaesthetise), ↑anesthetic (for: ↑anesthetise), ↑anaesthetic (for: ↑anaesthetize), ↑anesthetic (for: ↑anesthetize)
Hypernyms: ↑drug, ↑dose
Hyponyms:
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody


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