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put to

put to verb: to ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.

Verb

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

  1. To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.
    • I'll put it to the committee and see what they say.

put to meaning in Sanskrit

put to in Sanskrit

to put to
योजयति yojayati
to put to , yoke, harness
संयुज् saṃyuj

Forms of put to

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

Words formed from put to

Questions about put to

What does put to mean?
Put to means to ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.
What is put to in Sanskrit?
Put to in Sanskrit is योजयति (yojayati), संयुज् (saṃyuj). See Put to meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is put to?
Put to is a verb.
What is the past tense of put to?
The past tense of put to is put to.

Words near put to in the dictionary

  1. put through the hoops
  2. put through the mangle
  3. put through the mill
  4. put through the wringer
  5. put throughs
  6. put to
  7. put to bed
  8. put to bed with a shovel
  9. put to death
  10. put to good account
  11. put to good use

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put to (page history and authors); योजयति (Sanskrit) (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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