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Put up

verb

Place so as to be noticed. Synonym: post. "Post a warning at the dump"

Mount or put up. Synonyms: offer, provide. "Offer resistance"

Construct, build, or erect. Synonyms: erect, raise, rear, set up.

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate. "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

Make available for sale at an auction.

Preserve in a can or tin. Synonyms: can, tin.

Provide housing for. Synonyms: domiciliate, house.

Provide. Synonym: contribute.

Propose as a candidate for some honor. Synonyms: nominate, put forward.

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"Put up" Quotes from Famous Books

... cake and bread, if I can dodge Kate. I'll put up a lunch as if it were for me. Kate had good luck with her bread this time. I'll bring all I dare. And, Jack,—you aren't really uncomfortable up there, are you? Of course, I know it gets pretty cold, and maybe it's lonesome sometimes ...

— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower

... sparkle of the sea the little bay breathed a delicious freshness. The party from the schooner landed at the bottom of the garden. They exchanged insignificant words in studiously casual tones. The professor's sister put up a long-handled eye-glass as if to scan the novel surroundings, but in reality searching for poor Arthur anxiously. Having never seen him otherwise than in his town clothes she had no idea what he would look like. It had been left to the professor to help his ladies ...

— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad

... tablet or short piece of wood was inserted, as shown in figure 234, and the timbers rest on this. The entrance or open front faced to the northwest, and to protect it from the evening sun a temporary shelter of pinon brush was put up, as shown in the illustration. This feature is a common accompaniment of summer shelters and is often found with the regular ...

— Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 • Cosmos Mindeleff

... machinations that still haunt the page of history, and occasionally flit about the prejudiced memory of nations. Lady St Julians on the contrary wrung her hands over the unhappy fate of her enthralled sovereign, deprived of her faithful presence and obliged to put up with the society of personages of whom she knew nothing and who called themselves the friends of her youth. The ministers who had missed, especially those who had received their appointments, looked as all men do when they are jilted—embarrassed and affecting an awkward ease; as if they ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... minutes from that discovery the huge pipe organ was a raging furnace, and I personally narrowly escaped the falling debris by the rear door of my church study. The flags and decoration which had been put up for the jubilee celebration had not been moved, and they whetted the appetite of the flames. It was all significant to me of one thing chiefly, that at some points of my life I had been given no choice. At these places of surprise in my life there was never any doubt about what I had to do. God's ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

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