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動詞

put away (third-person singular simple present puts away, present participle putting away, simple past and past participle put away)

1. (transitive) To put (something) in its usual storage place; to place out of the way, clean up.

   Synonyms: store, stow

   Antonym: take out

   Please put away the tools when you are finished.

   I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.

   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

2. (transitive) To store, add to one's stores for later use.

   Coordinate terms: lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put aside, put by, save, store, store away, store up

   putting a little away for a rainy day

   Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter.

3. (transitive, colloquial) To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.

   You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 24:

     "Beautiful!" gasped the curate, gazing at Limpet with watering eyes; and Limpet, who seemed to find the curate's definition perfectly correct, put away the rest of his beer with professional skill, and waited for the curate to finish - a business which the curate, driven to desperation, accomplished in three frantic gulps that bereft him wholly of breath, and caused his eyes to water more than ever.

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 97:

     The blonde one, old Bernice, was drinking bourbon and water. She was really putting it away, too.

   • 2022, Hitomi Takano, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian, “Happy Ending”, in My Boy, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: Vertical Comics, →ISBN, page 16:

     He’s really putting it away! / NOMF NOMF

4. (transitive) To send (someone) to prison or mental asylum.

   After he was convicted, they put him away for 10 years.

5. (transitive) To kill someone.
   • 2003, Jason Isbell, Decoration Day:

     It's Decoration Day.
     And I knew the Hill Boys would put us away,
     but my Daddy wasn't afraid.
     He said "We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day"

6. (transitive, combat sports, by extension) To knock out an opponent.

   He put away his opponent in the first round.

7. (transitive, now formal or literary) To discard, divest oneself of.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Corinthians XIII:11:

     When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     Also he told kynge Arthur that he shold mysse hym / yet had ye leuer than al your landes to haue me ageyne / A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

9. (archaic, transitive) To divorce.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark x:[2], folio lviij, verso:

     And the pharyſes cam and axed hym a queſtion: whether it were laufull foꝛ a mã to putt awaye hys wyfe.

10. (sports) To take a large lead in a game, especially enough to guarantee victory or make the game no longer competitive.

    They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.

11. (baseball) To strike out a batter.
12. (baseball) To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
13. (tennis, pickleball) To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.

参考

• pack away

名詞

putaway (uncountable)

1. The process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received.
   • 2005, Steven M. Bragg, Inventory accounting: a comprehensive guide, page 73:

     If a putaway is done incorrectly, it is difficult to find an item, or verify that an incorrect part number or quantity has been used.