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put upon

put upon adjective: imposed on, taken advantage of, used, taken for granted, or unappreciated.

Adjective

put upon (comparative more put upon, superlative most put upon)

  1. Imposed on, taken advantage of, used, taken for granted, or unappreciated.
    • A man shouldn't let hisself be put upon by circumstances so as to be only half hisself.1876 May – 1877 July, Anthony Trollope, The American Senator […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 209
    • Here was he, about to receive his first eleven colours on this very day probably, being ordered about, inconvenienced—in short, put upon by a worm who had only just scraped into the third.1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Mike: A Public School Story
    Synonyms:
    victimized

put upon meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

put upon in Tamil

ஏமாளி

put upon in Malayalam

take advantage of, impose on, exploit
അനർഹമായി പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തുക, ചൂഷണം ചെയ്യുക, മുതലെടുക്കുക, സന്ദർഭം പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഭാരം അടിച്ചേല്പിക്കുക, ചുമത്തുക

put upon in Kannada

ಕವುಚು, ಕವಿಚು, ಕವಚು

Examples of put upon in a sentence

  • He felt put upon if she asked him to do the slightest household chore or to conform to any schedule of meals and sleep.1984 May 28, Bob Woodward, “John Belushi: ‘Saturday Night’ grind, drugs take their toll”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 28 Sep 2010, page...
  • His toe hurt, he was heavy, he lacked his old explosiveness, he felt put upon by everyone.2002 November 24, Mark Heisler, “On the NBA: Lakers Are Still Drama Kings”, in Los Angeles Times, page D14:

Synonyms of put upon

Forms of put upon

comparativemore put upon
superlativemost put upon
alternative formput-upon

Questions about put upon

What does put upon mean?
Put upon means imposed on, taken advantage of, used, taken for granted, or unappreciated.
What is put upon in Tamil?
Put upon in Tamil is ஏமாளி. See Put upon meaning in Tamil.
How do you use put upon in a sentence?
He felt put upon if she asked him to do the slightest household chore or to conform to any schedule of meals and sleep.
What part of speech is put upon?
Put upon is an adjective.

Words near put upon in the dictionary

  1. put up one's hands
  2. put up or shut up
  3. put up the shutters
  4. put up to
  5. put up with
  6. put upon
  7. put wood in t'hole
  8. put wood in t’hole
  9. put words in someone's mouth
  10. put-and-take
  11. put-back

Source and license

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