Synonym: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, bother, bring out, discommode, disoblige, douse, exsert, extend, hold out, incommode, inconvenience, issue, publish, put to sleep, put under, release, retire, smother, stretch forth, stretch out, trouble. Similar words: put off, put on, cut out, shut out, get out of, put, tour, get out. Meaning: v. 1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to 2. put out considerable effort 3. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion 4. thrust or extend out 5. put out, as of a candle or a light 6. be sexually active 7. cause to be out on a fielding play 8. retire 9. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale 10. make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs.
(241) No untrained person should try to put out a fire larger than one in a wastebasket.
(242) Make sure you put out your savings a high rate of interest.
(243) Finding a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went board and put out to sea.
(244) Tom Thumb put out his headand then popped it in again. Tom Thumb was a mouse.
(245) Out work: Operations put out to another company for reasons of specialism or capacity.
(246) Gillett and Hicks hired Barclays Capital to put out feelers internationally to find a buyer.