put away

Verb

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.
   • Please put away the tools when you are finished.
   • I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.

   Synonyms:

   store, stow

   Antonyms:

   take out

2. (transitive) To store, add to one's stores for later use.
   • putting a little away for a rainy day
   • Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter.
3. (colloquial, transitive) To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities.
   • You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.
   • "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...1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 24
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.
   • 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"2003, Jason Isbell, Decoration Day
6. (broadly, transitive, combat sports) To knock out an opponent.
   • He put away his opponent in the first round.
7. (formal, literary, transitive) To discard, divest oneself of.
   • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Corinthians XIII:11
8. (obsolete, transitive) To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
   • 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.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
9. (archaic, transitive) To divorce.
   • And the pharyſes cam and axed hym a queſtion: whether it were laufull foꝛ a mã to putt awaye hys wyfe.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark x:[2], folio lviij, verso
10. 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. To strike out a batter.
12. To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
13. To hit the ball in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it; see passing shot.