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put about

put about verb: to change direction.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To change direction.
    • 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.1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd
  2. (transitive) To circulate, spread or disseminate.
    • to put about a rumour
    • We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Adjective

put about (comparative more put about, superlative most put about)

  1. (dated) disturbed; upset
    • I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124

put about meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

put about in Tamil

திசை திருப்பு

put about in Malayalam

come about, turn round, change course
ഗതിമാറ്റുക, തിരിക്കുക, തിരിച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, തിരിയുമാറാക്കുക, ദിശ മാറ്റുക, ഗമനമാർഗ്ഗം വേറെയാക്കുക

put about in Kannada

ಗಾಳಿಸುದ್ದಿ ಹರಡು

Forms of put about

Verb
third-person singular presentputs about
present participleputting about
past participleput about
pastput about
Adjective
comparativemore put about
superlativemost put about

Questions about put about

What does put about mean?
Put about means to change direction.
What is put about in Tamil?
Put about in Tamil is திசை திருப்பு. See Put about meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is put about?
Put about can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of put about?
The past tense of put about is put about.

Words near put about in the dictionary

  1. put a sock in it
  2. put a spanner in the works
  3. put a spoke in someone's wheel
  4. put a stop to
  5. put a stopper to
  6. put about
  7. put across
  8. put ahead
  9. put all one's eggs in one basket
  10. put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
  11. put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put about (page history and authors); put about (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); put about (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); put about (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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