We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone, and we had to fall back.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to place in a specified position or relationship : LAY
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Macmillan
— to move something to a particular position, especially using your hands
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Other Word Forms
puts
putting
Usage
2 uses of ‘put’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
31 uses of ‘put’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
21 uses of ‘put’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
34 uses of ‘put’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle