puts away

verb

present tense third-person singular of put away
1
as in buries
to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea the naval authorities put away the body yesterday

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2
as in murders
to put to death deliberately after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover

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3
as in consumes
to take in as food can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puts away
  1. buries
  2. murders
  3. consumes
  4. assassinates
  5. eats
  6. slays
  7. takes out
  8. executes
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  • His body is never recovered, and the Gardiner family buries an empty casket.
    — Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Everyone stress-tests the checkout, then quietly buries returns, cancellations and subscription pauses.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of buries
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  • This included three of the women involved in the brutal Manson murders — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — all scheduled to be gassed.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Joe almost murders Morgan (Sherry and Morgan in the same episode?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of murders
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  • Memory maintenance consumes computing resources, and excessive information can overwhelm future sessions.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In this conception of macroeconomics, the economy consists of a massive input-output table where every cell in the matrix is a sector that consumes other cells’ outputs and provides inputs to other producers.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of consumes
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  • That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East.
    — Jill Lawrence, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Soleimani assassination | Trump orders a drone strike in Iraq that assassinates Qasem Soleimani, an influential Iranian military commander.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
Definition of assassinates
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  • Recycle Other Parts Remember that recycling your pumpkins doesn’t have to mean that the wildlife eats the fleshy orange stuff directly.
    — Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It’s served split open, face down, drenched in the peppery sauce, and eats almost like an au jus sandwich.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of eats
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  • With career-defining performances from Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins, this movie still absolutely slays 35 years after it was released.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2026
  • When his friend Richard (Leo Suter) slays Beatrice’s husband as well, the two come up with a scheme to marry the sisters and take over their property.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of slays
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  • As a result, if a student takes out a loan from a private financial institution that’s not federally guaranteed, that loan will often be provided at a higher interest rate.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Rick Devens is the type of dude who always takes out the bigger target.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of takes out
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  • This suspect returns back to his car, retrieves his handgun, walks back over to the victim, who’s trying to crawl away with her life, and executes her.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The aircraft executes anti-surface warfare (ASuW) through elegant communications and data link systems.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
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“Puts away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puts%20away. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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