To push; thrust: literally or figuratively.To cast; throw; particularly, to throw with an upward and forward motion of the arm: as, to put the stone; to put the shot. Compare putt.To drive; impel; force, either literally or figuratively; hence, to oblige; constrain; compel.To place, set, lay, deposit, bring, or cause to be in any position, place, or situation.To set in some particular way or course; instigate; urge; incite; entice.To cause, or cause to be; bring or place in some specified state or condition: as, to put one in mind; to put to shame; to put to death; to put one out of pain; to put in motion; to put in order; to put to inconvenience.To assign; set, as to a task or the doing of something: as, to put men to work.To set or propose for consideration, deliberation, judgment, reply, acceptance, or rejection; propound; propose; offer; state as a hypothesis or proposition: as, to put a case (see phrases below); to put a question; to put it to one to say.To state; express; phrase.To render; do; turn; translate.To posit; affirm.To apply; use.To lay down; give up; surrender.To put to inconvenience, trouble, annoyance, bewilderment, or embarrassment: as, he was much put about by that occurrence.To publish; declare; circulate.To renounce; discard.To divorce.To dispose of.To restore to the original place.To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier time.To refuse; say nay to.To set or thrust aside.To place in safe keeping; save or store up: as, “to put by something for a rainy day.”To degrade; deprive of authority, power, or place.To defeat; put to rout; overcome; excel.To bring into disuse.To confute; silence.To write, as in a subscription-list or in a program: as, to put one's name down for a handsome sum; to put one down for a toast or a speech.To give up; do without.To shoot out; send forth or out, as a sprout.To exert; bring into action.To propose; offer.To issue; publish.To introduce among others; interpose.To insert: as, to put in a passage or clause; to put in a scion.To appoint to an office.To palm off; pass fraudulently; foist.To dispose of, as by barter or sale; sell.To take off or lay aside; doff.To dismiss; discard.To defer; postpone; delay: as, to put off something to a more convenient season; to put off one's departure for a week.To defeat or baffle, as by delay, artifice, plausible excuse, etc.Hence— To assume; assume the garb or appearance of; show externally; exhibit: as, to put on a solemn countenance, or a show of interest; to put on airs.To turn or let on; turn or bring into action: as, to put on more steam.To forward; promote.To instigate; incite.To deceive; impose upon; cheat; trick: as, I will not be put upon.[On, prep.] To impose upon; inflict upon.To lay on; impute to: as, to put the blame on somebody else.To impel to; instigate to; incite to.To ascribe to.To foist upon; palm off on.In law, to rest on: rest one's case in; submit to: as, the defendant puts himself upon the country (that is, he pleads not guilty, and will go to trial).