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put across

put across verb: to explain or state something clearly and understandably.

Verb

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

  1. to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
    • All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.
  2. to convey or communicate.
    • Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian

put across meaning in Tamil and Kannada

put across in Tamil

புரியும்படி தெளிவாகச் சொல், கேட்போர் ஏற்கும்படி விளக்கு, வெற்றிகரமாகச் செய், நிறைவேற்று

put across in Kannada

ತಿಳಿಯುವಂತೆ ಹೇಳು, ತಿಳಿಯಪಡಿಸು

Forms of put across

third-person singular presentputs across
present participleputting across
past participleput across
pastput across

Questions about put across

What does put across mean?
Put across means to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
What is put across in Tamil?
Put across in Tamil is புரியும்படி தெளிவாகச் சொல், கேட்போர் ஏற்கும்படி விளக்கு, வெற்றிகரமாகச் செய். See Put across meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is put across?
Put across is a verb.
What is the past tense of put across?
The past tense of put across is put across.

Words near put across in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put across (page history and authors); put across (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); put across (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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