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put about en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (dated) disturbed; upset
    • I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited. 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124:

Forms

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most put about Degree=Sup lexicographic
more put about Degree=Cmp lexicographic

put about en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To change direction.
    • It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about. 1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd:
  2. (transitive) To circulate, spread or disseminate.
    • to put about a rumour
    • We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

Forms

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puts about Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting about Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put about Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put about Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

put it about · put oneself about

Translations (3)

ga scaip (to circulate a rumor) · it mettere in giro (to circulate a rumor) · bg разпространявам (to circulate a rumor)