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Put away meaning

Put away is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to return an item to its normal storage location.

Past simple
put away
Past participle
put away
-ing form
putting away

What put away means

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To return an item to its normal storage location

Please put the tools away after use.

1 more meaning of put away is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With put: put on, put up, put off, put back, put down, put out, put together, put in, put across, put aside.

With away: give away, go away, throw away, take away, come away, get away, get away with, run away, idle away, keep away.

Common questions

What does put away mean?

It has 2 meanings. One of them is to return an item to its normal storage location. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of put away?

Put away, which is also its past participle.

Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.

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