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put someone wise

put someone wise verb: to explain; to inform of something.

Verb

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

  1. (dated, often, slang) To explain; to inform of something.
    • Let me put you wise to what's going on.
    • If each of you men who wrote me last year and told me what a regular fellow I was for putting you wise to our Shaving Cream, and what great stuff it was, would just tell your friends[…]1916 March 11, “[advertisement]Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post

put someone wise meaning in Malayalam

put someone wise in Malayalam

inform, tell, notify
ബോധവാനാക്കുക, വിവരം അറിയിക്കുക, കാര്യം മനസ്സിലാക്കിക്കൊടുക്കുക, പറയുക, അറിയിക്കുക, തെര്യപ്പെടുത്തുക

Forms of put someone wise

third-person singular presentputs someone wise
present participleputting someone wise
past participleput someone wise
pastput someone wise

Questions about put someone wise

What does put someone wise mean?
Put someone wise means to explain; to inform of something.
What is put someone wise in Malayalam?
Put someone wise in Malayalam is ബോധവാനാക്കുക, വിവരം അറിയിക്കുക, കാര്യം മനസ്സിലാക്കിക്കൊടുക്കുക. See Put someone wise meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is put someone wise?
Put someone wise is a verb.
What is the past tense of put someone wise?
The past tense of put someone wise is put someone wise.

Words near put someone wise in the dictionary

  1. put someone on to
  2. put someone out of their misery
  3. put someone through their paces
  4. put someone to their trumps
  5. put someone under the screw
  6. put someone wise
  7. put someone's back up
  8. put someone's light out
  9. put someone's lights out
  10. put someone's pipe out
  11. put something behind one

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put someone wise (page history and authors); put someone wise (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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