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Put up

verb

Place so as to be noticed. Synonym: post. "Post a warning at the dump"

Mount or put up. Synonyms: offer, provide. "Offer resistance"

Construct, build, or erect. Synonyms: erect, raise, rear, set up.

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate. "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

Make available for sale at an auction.

Preserve in a can or tin. Synonyms: can, tin.

Provide housing for. Synonyms: domiciliate, house.

Provide. Synonym: contribute.

Propose as a candidate for some honor. Synonyms: nominate, put forward.

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"Put up" Quotes from Famous Books

... not until the study hour was almost over that Phyllis realized that Muriel had not come. Sally's news had completely swamped all other thoughts. She put up the lid of her desk and under its cover slipped a note back to Janet. She read it and passed it to Sally, who shook ...

— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill

... Tom. "On my part, I shall keep a good lookout. It will be a bold spy who gets near my shop after this. I'm going to put up my highly-charged protecting electric wires again. We were just talking about them when you came in. Would you like to look about ...

— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton

... tramp, or the one for whom Norah had put up the lunch that evening, came to the fireworks, the six little Bunkers did not see the ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

... you think I'm a fool To put up with Home Rule? For I'm not, as you'll quickly discover, discover. For soldier and rebel I'm equally able; I'll neither have one ...

— The Red Hand of Ulster • George A. Birmingham

... blush. Bobby, who was fond of books but whose taste ran to "Rules for Basketball" and "How to Gain Health Through Exercise," had put up a small shelf directly over her bed to hold her literary treasures. Libbie, exhausting the space in her tiny corner bookcase had thoughtlessly placed the two heavy volumes of the story Bobby mentioned on top of her ...

— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

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