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