put up
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
put up
adjective
- Alternative form of put-up
verb puts up · putting up · put up
- To place in a high location. Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
- To hang; to mount. Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
-
To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
Opposite: let down
- To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something). I think someone put him up to it.
-
To store away.
Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
Similar: put away
- To house; to shelter; to take in. We can put you up for the night.
- To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.) Avoiding the Blue Boar, I put up at an inn of minor reputation down the town, and ordered some dinner.
- To present, especially in "put up a fight". That last fighter put up quite a fight.
- To endure; to put up with; to tolerate. By gogs bloud my maiſters, we will not put vp this ſo quietly, […] VVele ſo deale of ourſelues as wele reuenge this villainy.
- To provide funds in advance. Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
- To build a structure. The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
- To make available; to offer. The picture was put up for auction.
- To cause (wild game) to break cover. "By George! they'll have something to excite them if they put us up."
- To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and/or pickling and storing in a bottle, jar or can. People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.
- To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard. In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.
-
To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
Opposite: put down
- To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats. I put him up with Biggie, Tupac and them.
- To kill (someone). I'll put him up.
-
Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
Similar: frame up
- To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery. Her account of the manner in which the 'plant' was made upon her, affords a good example of the style of 'putting up' a house robbery: […]
Translations
Every language
verb to place in a high location
| Español | colgar |
|---|---|
| Français | placer |
| Deutsch | hochräumen, hochtun, hochstellen, hochlegen |
| Italiano | collocare |
| Русский | ста́вить stávitʹ |
verb to hang or mount
| Español | colgar |
|---|---|
| Português | afixar |
| Deutsch | befestigen |
| Italiano | appendere, attaccare |
verb to cajole
| Deutsch | anstacheln |
|---|---|
| Italiano | persuadere |
verb to present
| Português | mostrar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | aufbieten |
| Italiano | opporre, mostrare, presentare |
verb to provide funds
| Deutsch | aufbringen |
|---|
verb to build a structure
| Deutsch | aufstellen, aufbauen, errichten |
|---|
verb hunting
| Deutsch | aufbringen, aufscheuchen |
|---|
Talk about this word "put up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/put%20up. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. put up. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/put%20up "put up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/put%20up.Cite this
@misc{put_up_2026,
title = {put up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/put%20up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
