Synonyms of putting up

putting up

verb

present participle of put up

1

as in erecting

to fix in an upright position

the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erecting
• raising
• setting up
• rearing
• lifting
• hoisting
• pitching
• propping (up)
• shoring (up)
• upending
• bracing
• jacking (up)
• supporting
• picking up
• elevating
• upraising
• upholding
• upping
• buttressing
• perking (up)
• hiking
• uplifting
• craning
• heightening
• boosting
• heaving
• hefting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tearing down
• flattening
• leveling
• demolishing
• knocking down
• razing

2

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• making
• making up
• setting up
• putting together
• creating
• erecting
• manufacturing
• establishing
• designing
• piecing
• fabricating
• producing
• rearing
• raising
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• confecting
• throwing up
• generating
• rebuilding
• shaping
• organizing
• rigging (up)
• molding
• forging
• beginning
• originating
• concocting
• inventing
• framing
• fashioning
• initiating
• hammering
• reconstructing
• founding
• innovating
• inaugurating
• carpentering
• instituting
• devising
• coining
• constituting
• imagining
• prefabricating
• handcrafting
• combining
• reedifying
• retrofitting
• conceiving
• reassembling
• redeveloping
• fathering
• contriving
• jerry-building
• uniting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• taking down
• tearing down
• knocking down
• pulling down
• striking
• dismantling
• destroying
• blowing up
• disassembling
• wrecking
• dismembering
• shattering
• smashing
• devastating
• ruining
• flattening
• demolishing
• leveling
• pulverizing
• exploding
• razing
• demounting
• ruinating
• dividing
• detaching
• separating
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• disjoining
• disuniting

3

as in selling

to offer for sale to the public

put their possessions up for auction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selling
• dealing (in)
• marketing
• distributing
• retailing
• merchandising
• vending
• trafficking (in)
• exchanging
• providing
• exporting
• promoting
• wholesaling
• reselling
• peddling
• advertising
• trading
• supplying
• hawking
• preselling
• handling
• bartering
• bargaining
• keeping
• plugging
• remarketing
• haggling
• touting
• auctioning
• carrying
• dickering
• paltering
• stocking
• boosting
• ballyhooing
• chaffering
• horse-trading

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buying
• purchasing

4

as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter

the university puts up students in a variety of buildings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• taking in
• accommodating
• lodging
• sheltering
• camping
• boarding
• roofing
• quartering
• rooming
• bestowing
• billeting
• bunking
• harboring
• encamping
• chambering
• domiciling
• bivouacking
• homing
• shedding
• bedding (down)
• stabling
• securing
• tenting
• roosting
• ensconcing
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting

5

as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plotting
• scheming
• planning
• intriguing
• cooking (up)
• colluding
• conspiring
• conniving
• contriving
• machinating
• devising
• engineering
• designing
• laying out
• hatching
• counterplotting
• concocting
• compassing
• manipulating
• brewing
• mapping
• jockeying
• shaping
• maneuvering
• framing

6

as in storing

to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability

I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• storing
• keeping
• stowing
• packing
• housing
• hangaring
• repositing
• warehousing
• filing
• shelving
• garaging
• cellaring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of putting up

Sutton, a rookie forward who went undrafted out of LSU, continued to impress after putting up 16 points and seven rebounds in Sunday’s win over Golden State Warriors Blue. — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Unlike many of his second-year predecessors, Richard is not putting up stats by dominating the ball and using moves that would only work against unseasoned rookies or future European league all-stars. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

The companies building them are putting up hundreds simultaneously, in places the grid was never designed to reach, on timelines that utility companies, with their seven year queues for new connections, simply can’t comprehend. — Vinod Khosla, Fortune, 30 June 2026

Algeria deserved the win but all credit to Jordan for putting up such a fight. — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 23 June 2026

Wallen is known for putting up insane numbers on Spotify, and that now includes the fourth song of his breaking the billion streams barrier. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026

Ticket prices, however, aren’t the only eye-popping numbers FIFA is putting up. — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 10 June 2026

What does putting up for tender mean? — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 10 June 2026

This expansion has been rumored/teased for a long while now, and it was set to release during a streaming event tomorrow, but its own launcher spoiled the fun by putting up the announcement early. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026