put across en · VERB
Meanings
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to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.
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to convey or communicate.
Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.
2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| putting across | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| puts across | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| put across | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| put across | Tense=Past | lexicographic |