put back

phrasal verb

put back; putting back; puts back

1

: to return (something) to the place where it belongs

Remember to put the vacuum cleaner back in the closet after you've used it.

The books had been put back neatly on the shelf.

2

British : to change (a planned event) to start at a later date or time

They put back the game until next week.

Examples of put back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And they are meant to be torn apart and put back together. —Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025

Now, the Central Arizona Project is starting to make a case for cranking up the dormant desalter and taking some of the water from the canal to put back into the river with the excess salt removed. —Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025

Last Thursday, city crews took one of two transformers offline to rebuild it, much like a car engine that is taken apart and put back together, Gannon said. —Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025

Turning even an organic vegetable into refined flakes and powders may destroy the plant’s food matrix — cell walls that hold nutrients — and like our Humpty Dumpty, that food must be put back together again. —Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for put back

• aback
• anzac
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback