put away

verb puts away · putting away · put away

1. transitive To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up. Please put away the tools when you are finished.

   Similar: store, stow · Opposite: take out

2. transitive To store, add to one's stores for later use. putting a little away for a rainy day
3. colloquial, transitive To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities. You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.
4. transitive To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum. After he was convicted, they put him away for 10 years.
5. transitive To kill someone. It's Decoration Day. And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away, but my Daddy wasn't afraid. He said "We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day"
6. broadly, transitive To knock out an opponent. He put away his opponent in the first round.
7. formal, literary, transitive To discard, divest oneself of. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
8. obsolete, transitive To fend off, deflect; to dismiss. Also he told kynge Arthur that he shold mysse hym / yet had ye leuer than al your landes to haue me ageyne / A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge.
9. archaic, transitive To divorce. And the pharyſes cam and axed hym a queſtion: whether it were laufull foꝛ a mã to putt awaye hys wyfe.
10. To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive. They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
11. To strike out a batter.
12. To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
13. To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.