to put away
115
5.8
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt əˈweɪ/
:
encarcelar
- The jury found enough evidence to put away the notorious criminal for many years.
- put away bad guys
- put away for life
- get put away
And it was an Arab female Supreme Court Justice that put him away.
- And it was an Arab female Supreme Court Justice that put him away.
- And but you know how they tried to just put you away for something and you think that's because of your name?
- They don't like them, OK, But they took off the streets most of the real big time bad criminals and put them away.
- What would Joe Biden love more than anything else than to have me silent, to have me put away, to have me not testifying before Congress, Right.
- I've never been put away here, but I've been a few overnighters and.
- Like it got too, too bad, like and I really needed I needed to be put away.
Examples
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What did they put you away for, John?
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The Judge put away four of your cronies on Rico charges.
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You got him put away.
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You can help the police put the criminal away.
Fiction book (1991) -
I mean you're the one that arrested him and put him away for 12 years.
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The teen had been murdered, and he wanted the perp put away for good.
Fiction book (1995) -
There wouldn't have been any trouble if you'd put Henry Niles away.
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After a lengthy trial, the judge decided to put away the defendant in a maximum-security facility.
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Law enforcement worked tirelessly to gather evidence that would put away the suspect for good.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To fasten something with a key so other people cannot open it
300
4.0
Put someone or something in a place where they cannot leave, for example a jail
178
4.2
Put someone in prison as a punishment or keep them locked up
169
5.9
To keep someone with the police for questioning
108
2.1
To put someone in prison as punishment
70
3.9
To keep something inside so it cannot escape by closing or locking
50
5.5
Lock someone inside a place so they cannot leave
44
7.0
To send someone by legal order to prison or hospital
32
3.4
Put someone or something somewhere they cannot leave and others cannot reach
27
7.2
Send someone to live for a long time in a hospital, prison, or care home
26
4.3
Send a person to prison as punishment
25
8.5
To put someone back in custody until their next hearing
18
8.4
To put someone in prison and keep them there
3
5.5
Keep people and things in a place where they cannot leave or be seen
1
9.9
To lock someone inside a room or building against their will
A person who is kept in prison by the law
To put someone in prison as punishment
To put someone in jail
To put someone in jail
Antonyms
How Imprisoned
- Formal
178
4.2
115
5.8
300
4.0
∞
2.7
- Formal
169
5.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to dismiss or set aside' is directly related to 'put' (place) + 'away' (to a removed/stored location), so a learner who knows both words can infer a concrete sense like 'put aside' or 'store'. However, the specific mental sense 'stop thinking about' is a metaphorical extension from the spatial meaning and may not be fully predictable without prior exposure to this figurative use, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Put away for locking someone up comes from the idea of putting a person away out of view, like closing an object in a box or room. So it came to mean 'to confine or lock up a person'.