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put through

put through verb: to connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.
    • Please hold the line a moment while I put you through to the sales office.
  2. (idiomatic) to cause to endure
    • After all the grief my wife has put me through, I wonder why I'm still with her.
  3. (UK, transitive) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.
    • Playing football brought people together – we’d play against any brick wall, on any kerb, or see if we could put the window through in the art department.2005 October 25, “Pete Doherty pens song for his football team”, in NME
  4. (transitive) To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.
    • Friedel again had to save as he parried a Patrice Evra shot before gathering the ball after the left-back had been put through by Ryan Giggs.2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, through.

Noun

put through (plural put throughs)

  1. A transaction by a broker outside the stock exchange, bringing a buyer and seller together.

put through meaning in Kannada

put through in Kannada

ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಡು

Forms of put through

Verb
third-person singular presentputs through
present participleputting through
past participleput through
pastput through
Noun
pluralput throughs

Words formed from put through

Questions about put through

What does put through mean?
Put through means to connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.
What is put through in Kannada?
Put through in Kannada is ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಡು. See Put through meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is put through?
Put through can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of put through?
The past tense of put through is put through.

Words near put through in the dictionary

  1. put the tin lid on it
  2. put the toothpaste back in the tube
  3. put the wind up
  4. put the wood in the hole
  5. put the world to rights
  6. put through
  7. put through hoops
  8. put through the hoops
  9. put through the mangle
  10. put through the mill
  11. put through the wringer

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