Synonyms and Antonyms of putting up
1
to fix in an upright position
- the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof
bracing, buttressing, propping (up), shoring (up), supporting
boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, upholding, uplifting, upping
2
to form by putting together parts or materials
- plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens
assembling, building, confecting, constructing, erecting, fabricating, making, making up, piecing, raising, rearing, setting up
carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
prefabricating
beginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originating
constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)
reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying [British], retrofitting
jerry-building, rigging (up), throwing up
combining, uniting
demolishing, destroying, devastating, flattening, leveling (or levelling), pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruinating, ruining, shattering, smashing, wrecking
blowing up, exploding
detaching, disengaging
disconnecting, disjoining, disuniting, dividing, separating
3
to offer for sale to the public
- put their possessions up for auction
preselling, wholesaling
remarketing, reselling
hawking, peddling
bartering, distributing, exchanging, exporting, handling, trading, trafficking (in)
advertising, ballyhooing, boosting, plugging, promoting, touting
bargaining, chaffering, dickering, haggling, horse-trading, paltering
auctioning
providing, supplying
carrying, keeping, stocking
4
to provide with living quarters or shelter
- the university puts up students in a variety of buildings
accommodating, bestowing, billeting, bivouacking, boarding, bunking, camping, chambering, domiciling, encamping, harboring, housing, lodging, quartering, roofing, rooming, sheltering, taking in
5
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends
- put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies
counterplotting
brewing, concocting, cooking (up), devising, hatching
engineering, jockeying, maneuvering, manipulating
designing, framing, laying out, mapping, planning, shaping
6
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
