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Synonyms and Antonyms of putting out
- despite putting out her best effort, she was unable to beat her longtime tennis rival
- put out the campfire before leaving
blanketing, dousing (also dowsing), extinguishing, quenching, snuffing (out)
- my father was put out by all the street noise outside our house
aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, grating, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking [British], nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing
inflaming (also enflaming), provoking, rousing
badgering, baiting, bullyragging (also ballyragging), deviling (or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasing
angering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roiling
agitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
- if it wouldn't put you out too much, would you mind giving me a ride to the airport?
burdening, encumbering, saddling, weighing
fettering, hampering, hamstringing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling), tying up (or tieing up)
aggravating, angering, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, exasperating, galling, getting, irking, nettling, peeving, piquing, riling, vexing
- though most of their sales are now transacted through the Internet, the company still puts out a mail-order catalog
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