PUT AWAY Synonyms: 133 Similar and Opposite Words

put away

verb

Definition of put away

as in to inter

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea the naval authorities put away the body yesterday

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as in to assassinate

to put to death deliberately after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover

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as in to eat

to take in as food can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting

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Recent Examples of put away With the time needed to set up the paramotor and put away all the gear, the trip takes slightly longer than driving to work. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 It can be put away, like a treasure in a jewelry box, to be reconsidered down the line. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026 Reset The Car By the end of the week, there’s probably a bit of clutter still sitting in your car that needs to be put away, too. — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026 Beyond coffee, Gottsman said candidates should avoid other distractions or unprofessional impressions by putting away their phones, skipping overpowering fragrances, removing sunglasses from the tops of their heads and avoiding chewing gum. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for put away

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The spores inside him are alive and well and ready to spread should his unpreserved body be interred in the soil.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Following the service, the King will be interred in the Royal Mausoleum at Akershus Fortress, alongside the late King Haakon VII, Queen Maud, King Olav V & Crown Princess Märtha.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

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The 21-year-old Michigan State senior is also head of the local chapter of Turning Point, the group for young conservatives whose founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated last year.

— Jacqueline Ganun, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
On July 7, 2021, Moïse was assassinated inside his second-floor bedroom.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

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Even though the vast majority of prescriptions are written for generic drugs, drug spending is surging faster than any other category — and drugs have been eating more of the employer’s premium for multiple years now.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
That can include wild animals that seem unusually tame, nocturnal animals that are out in the day, and pets that have trouble walking, eating or a significant change in personality.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of eat

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The remains uncovered in February followed an earlier discovery of remains from 72 people who also were believed to have been buried at the former county hospital cemetery site, UC Davis Health officials said.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
The sale was buried near the end of a 418-page document detailing the estate’s finances for the third quarter of 2020.

— Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of bury

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Hannie was captured, tortured, and murdered by the Nazis in the final months of the war, but never snitched on her sisters.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
In May, Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, was not executed because officials could not find a suitable vein for an IV line, so the drugs were not administered.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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That means an e-reader can display a page for hours while consuming essentially no display power between updates.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
According to a new report on eating patterns in America by market research company Circana, nearly half of US adults are actively trying to consume more protein, from bars to whey powder to chicken breasts night after night.

— Emily Laurence Sardinha, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of consume

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And then the game starts, the nerves dissipate, and the opponent is methodically slayed.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
As global markets demanded higher performance thresholds, Gaydon answered with the ferocious Aston Martin DBX707, a high-velocity machine with premium luxury credentials plus supercar-slaying straight-line velocity.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of slay

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Hospital staff were working to save Pike's life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the drug that the state uses to execute prisoners, her lawyers wrote in a Friday filing in Davidson County Chancery Court.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Pike, who was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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