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Put out

verb

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, trouble.

Put out considerable effort.

Deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion. Synonym: smother.

Thrust or extend out. Synonyms: exsert, extend, hold out, stretch forth, stretch out. "Point a finger" , "Extend a hand" , "The bee exserted its sting"

Put out, as of a candle or a light. Synonym: douse.

Be sexually active.

Cause to be out on a fielding play. Synonym: retire.

Retire.

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale. Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, release.

10.

Administer an anesthetic drug to. Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under. "Anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth"

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... heard, and the old woman, muttering to herself—"It is the voice of Marie. What has the devil's imp been doing to her?"—hobbled as fast as she could to the turning that led to the sea, and just as the flying figure appeared, put out her skinny hand to arrest it. There was a sudden scream, a fall, and Marie lay in the road, like ...

— A Loose End and Other Stories • S. Elizabeth Hall

... Kurtz into the pilot-house: there was more air there. Lying on the couch, he stared through the open shutter. There was an eddy in the mass of human bodies, and the woman with helmeted head and tawny cheeks rushed out to the very brink of the stream. She put out her hands, shouted something, and all that wild mob took up the shout in a roaring chorus of articulated, rapid, ...

— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad

... have been forced, by the nature of their calling, to be scientific men. From the very earliest ages in which the first canoe put out to sea, the mariner has been educated by the most practical of all schoolmasters, namely, danger. He has carried his life in his hand day and night; he has had to battle with the most formidable and the most seemingly capricious of the brute powers ...

— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... Peter drew a bearskin about her, and for a long time sat wide-awake, guarding Uppy and baring his ears at intervals to listen. A dozen times he saw Wapi's bloodshot eyes looking at him, and twice he put out a hand to the dog's head and spoke to ...

— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood

... sandstone, and schist. In the level ground near the creek the grass was five to nine feet high, and greatly impeded our horses. The day was cool and cloudy with some light showers at night. The aneroid barometer was completely put out of adjustment by the principal lever having been moved from its position by a violent shake in crossing one of ...

— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

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