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PUT OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put over mean? 

PUT OVER (verb)
  The verb PUT OVER has 2 senses:

1. communicate successfullyplay

2. hold back to a later timeplay

  Familiarity information: PUT OVER used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUT OVER (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Communicate successfully

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

get across; put over

Context example:

He put over the idea very well

Hypernyms (to "put over" is one way to...):

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Hold back to a later time

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

defer; hold over; postpone; prorogue; put off; put over; remit; set back; shelve; table

Context example:

let's postpone the exam

Hypernyms (to "put over" is one way to...):

delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

"Put over" entails doing...:

reschedule (assign a new time and place for an event)

call off; cancel; scratch; scrub (postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put over"):

call (stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather)

hold (stop dealing with)

suspend (render temporarily ineffective)

probate (put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence)

reprieve; respite (postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP


 Context examples 


"Are you convinced now?" said the Professor in response, and as he spoke he put over his hand, and in a way that made me shudder, pulled back the dead lips and showed the white teeth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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