If you put out, you agree to have sex with someone
To affect numbers or calculations in a way that makes them incorrect
If a ship puts out, it sails away from a port
To broadcast a programme on television or radio
To cause problems or difficulties for someone by making them do something for you
To defeat a player or team in a game or competition so that they can no longer take part in it
To do something to help someone even if it causes problems or difficulties for you
To hang clothes outside to dry after you have washed them
To injure your back/shoulder etc by moving a bone out of its position in a joint
To make someone unconscious by giving them a drug, usually before a medical operation
To make something stop burning
To move your hand/arm/foot forwards from your body
To place something outside your house
To produce information for people to read, watch, or hear
To publish a book, magazine, or newspaper, or produce a video or CD for sale
To put something in a place where someone will see it, so that they can use it or have it
To put waste outside your house so that it can be collected and taken away
To switch off a light
To tell people about something
A hundred to one he'd forgotten to bring with him the black tie she'd put out earlier that morning.
All we'd have to do is put out the word that Richard Marlette is still alive.
Can you put the word out that the meeting has been cancelled.
Few had enough time in which to steel themselves to resist the impulse to put out a hand to catch it.
He was put out in the first round at Wimbledon.
I don’t see why I should put myself out for him.
I put out food for the birds in cold weather.
If you get one figure wrong it puts the whole calculation out.
It took firefighters three hours to put the blaze out.
It would be lovely to stay with you, but I don’t want to put you out.
Most of the stuff they put out isn’t worth watching.
Paradise -here, my friends - the babes are unbelievable, and boy do they put out.
Please put that cigarette out.
Police have put out a warning about an escaped prisoner.
She put her hand out to stop herself from falling.
She really put herself out to get everything ready for us.
Tara put the light out and went to sleep.
The band put out a statement denying rumours of a split.
We usually put the cat out at night.
A company that has put out several new titles this year
Puts out
Putting out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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