putting out

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To blind (eyes).
   • You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
2. (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
   • Don’t forget to put out the dog.
   1. (transitive) To expel.
      • ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
      • ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19
   2. (transitive) To remove from office.
3. (transitive) To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
   • I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.

   Synonyms:

   perturb, unsettle, agitate, freak, sting, bother, bring down, discompose, unstring, disconcert

4. (transitive) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
   • England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport

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