英和和英

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction.
   • 1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd:

     It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about.

2. (transitive) To circulate (a rumour).

   Synonyms: circulate, spread, disseminate