put away

verb

put away; putting away; puts away

transitive verb

1

a

: discard, renounce

… to put grief away is disloyal to the memory of the departed.

—H. A. Overstreet

b

: divorce

2

: to eat or drink up : consume

3

a

: to confine especially in a mental institution

b

: bury

c

: kill

Synonyms of put away

• inter
• bury

Examples of put away in a Sentence

the naval authorities put away the body yesterday

Recent Examples on the Web

Rain jackets and umbrellas can be put away for the end of the workweek and beginning of the weekend, but will need to come back out as rain chances ramp back up by Sunday. —Shane Hinton, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025

Coming home from the grocery store or farmers market and putting away groceries seems like a pretty straightforward task. —Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025

Several audience members looked shocked and confused as the meeting ended and commissioners put away papers, shrugged on jackets and walked out of the chambers. —Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 5 Dec. 2025

Being tipped over the edge ultimately leads to Murdock putting away his vigilante role for good. —James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Rhymes for put away

• aaa
• adonais
• alleyway
• alumnae
• anime
• anyway
• arete
• attache
• baa
• beaujolais
• bouvier
• breakaway