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

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

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

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

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

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

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3

as in selling

to offer for sale to the public

put their possessions up for auction

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

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• buying
• purchasing

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

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• ejecting
• evicting

• 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
• colluding
• conniving
• conspiring
• engineering
• contriving
• cooking (up)
• machinating
• devising
• counterplotting
• laying out
• hatching
• designing
• compassing
• concocting
• mapping
• brewing
• jockeying
• manipulating
• maneuvering
• shaping
• 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
• housing
• hangaring
• packing
• repositing
• warehousing
• filing
• shelving
• garaging
• cellaring