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Put out

verb

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, trouble.

Put out considerable effort.

Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion. Synonym: smother.

Thrust or extend out. Synonyms: exsert, extend, hold out, stretch forth, stretch out. "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"

Put out, as of a candle or a light. Synonym: douse.

Be sexually active.

Cause to be out on a fielding play. Synonym: retire.

Retire.

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale. Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, release.

10.

Administer an anesthetic drug to. Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under. "Anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth"

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"Put out" Quotes from Famous Books

... too much the gentleman and man of the world for that. He would accept the situation philosophically. Besides, any opposition on his part would be in direct violation of their agreement, that it was her privilege to quit whensoever she might choose. She was considerably put out at first when she received his telegram telling her that he was coming to Denver to fetch her back, and her first impulse was to send a wire to stop him. She thought she would prefer to wait and tell him ...

— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

... little put out by this apostrophe, "I do not say that I am coming to claim the tulip of Master Boxtel, but to reclaim ...

— The Black Tulip • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... a test was made at Newport, R. I., by Lieut. Rodgers, of the navy, of a "hydro-areoplane" as an auxiliary to a battleship. The idea of the test was to alight alongside of the ship, hoist the machine aboard, put out to sea and launch the machine again with the use of a crane. Lieut. Rodgers came down smoothly alongside the Ohio, his machine was easily drawn aboard with a crane, and the Ohio steamed down to the open sea, where ...

— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

... very happy couple, riding side by side on their hobbies, and never interfering with each other. Mr Easy knew his wife could not understand him, and therefore did not expect her to listen very attentively; and Mrs Easy did not care how much her husband talked, provided she was not put out in her game. Mutual forbearance ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

... all sizes and makes had put out to relieve us, we returned to the Victoria jetty, which the ambulance corps of the Sikh garrison, aided by volunteers and local doctors, had turned into a temporary hospital. Here were removed ...

— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

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