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put away
verb
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What it means

  1. verb turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
    “it's time for you to put away childish things”
  2. verb kill gently, as with an injection
    “the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep”
  3. verb stop using
    “the children were told to put away their toys”
  4. verb eat up
    “My son tucked in a whole pizza”
  5. verb place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
    “The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend”
  6. verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”
  7. verb throw or cast away
    “Put away your worries”