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puts about

puts about is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put about.

Meaning of put about

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To change direction.
    • It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about.1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd
  2. (transitive) To circulate, spread or disseminate.
    • to put about a rumour

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What is puts about the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Puts about is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put about.

Words near puts about in the dictionary

  1. puts a slight on
  2. puts a slight upon
  3. puts a sock in it
  4. puts a spoke in someone's wheel
  5. puts a stop to
  6. puts about
  7. puts across
  8. puts ahead
  9. puts all one's eggs in one basket
  10. puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it
  11. puts an end to

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