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puts forth

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

Meaning of put forth

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
    • to put forth an effort
  2. (transitive) To extend forward (a body part or something held).
    • Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. (transitive) To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
    • They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit.1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature s D2, verso – D3...
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
    • […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London: George Eld, Book 14, Chapter 21, p. 524
  5. (transitive) To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
    • For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 17
  6. (intransitive, transitive) To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
    • […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Puts forth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put forth.

Words near puts forth in the dictionary

  1. puts down roots
  2. puts down to
  3. puts facts on the ground
  4. puts food on the table
  5. puts foot to ass
  6. puts forth
  7. puts forward
  8. puts hair on one's chest
  9. puts hair on someone's chest
  10. puts heads together
  11. puts horns on

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