Put something behind you meaning
Put something behind you is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to stop dwelling on an unpleasant experience so that it no longer controls your life.
- Past simple
- put something behind you
- Past participle
- put something behind you
- -ing form
- putting something behind you
What put something behind you means
move beyond an experienceB2
To stop dwelling on an unpleasant experience so that it no longer controls your life
He is trying to put the divorce behind him.
1 more meaning of put something behind you is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With put: put on, put up, put off, put back, put away, put down, put out, put together, put in, put across.
With behind: fall behind, get behind.
Common questions
What does put something behind you mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to stop dwelling on an unpleasant experience so that it no longer controls your life. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of put something behind you?
Put something behind you, 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.
