to put out
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2.0
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt aʊt/
:
apagar
- Please, put out the candle before you leave the room.
- put out the fire
Are you not employed precisely to put out fires?
- Are you not employed precisely to put out fires?
- And I, he put a cigar out on your head, basically.
- And if you have too much of the wax, it'll put out the flame.
- Lord did not start a flame that cannot be put out.
- They tried to cover it up, couldn't put out the fire.
- Like you want that dream, that little flame to not people will put that flame out too easily, even people that love you.
- Not much, which is maybe why you shouldn't be tweeting about how to put out fires and fix planes.
- He's fulfilled, but the stress levels, the constant fires that he has to put out.
- And he's smoking, he's smoking and and Marcy Klein, he's going no, put out the cigarette thing.
- If they get a fever, praise God, just what what puts the what puts fire out?
Examples
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The firemen were still trying to put out the fire when I got there.
Fiction book (1991) -
You can only put out one fire at a time.
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You might want to put that fire out before it it goes any further, right?
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Call in the dogs and put out the fire!
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Two and a half hours to put out that fire.
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Please, put out the fire.
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Master, can we fetch some water to put out the fire?
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Put out the fire.
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If the master's house caught fire, he'd be the first to put the blaze out.
Fiction book (1992) -
By mid-September, early snows helped to put out the fires; however, the smoldering flames were not extinguished until November.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
50
2.4
Stop a flame by breathing on it
31
5.7
To put out a small flame by covering or pinching it
23
4.4
Stop a fire, candle, or other light from burning
20
5.1
To stop a fire or light from burning
13
4.2
To stop something completely using strong action
11
5.3
To stop a small fire by covering it so it has no air
6
4.7
Stop a flame, candle, or small fire from burning
5
2.5
Stop a fire burning and spreading
3
5.3
To press the burning end of a cigarette against a surface to put it out
1
4.0
To press a small burning thing so it stops burning, for example a cigarette
To put out a fire or light
To stop something burning by crushing it
Antonyms
How Extinguished
Surface Forms
Morphology
The anesthetic sense is partially inferable because 'put' can mean 'place into a state' and 'out' can signal loss of consciousness in constructions like 'knock out' or 'black out', so there is a conceptual link to making someone unconscious. However, 'out' more typically means 'outside' for learners and the specific medical/useful sense 'put (someone) out' = 'sedate/put to sleep' is idiomatic and register-specific, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would likely not fully predict it.
Etymology
Put out comes from the image of using your hand or a tool to push a flame out until it stops burning, so it means 'to extinguish' a fire, light, or cigarette.