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Put someone through something meaning

Put someone through something is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to make someone undergo an unpleasant, stressful, or difficult experience.

Past simple
put someone through something
Past participle
put someone through something
-ing form
putting someone through something

What put someone through something means

subject to hardshipB2

To make someone undergo an unpleasant, stressful, or difficult experience

The investigation put her through months of uncertainty.

1 more meaning of put someone through something 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 away, put down, put out, put together, put in, put across.

With through: go through, get through, see through, patch through, take someone through something, think through, thumb through, work through, come through, go through with.

Common questions

What does put someone through something mean?

It has 2 meanings. One of them is to make someone undergo an unpleasant, stressful, or difficult experience. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of put someone through something?

Put someone through something, 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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