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put it past en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From put past with placeholder it.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, in the negative) To consider it not possible for (someone) (to do something).
    • I wouldn't put it past him to spread malicious gossip about you.
    • I wouldn't put it past her to steal from shops, but I would put it past her to steal from her own mother.
    • Since, as I mentioned, my arse is intact, I meditate first upon the pain in my balls. Jesus Harold Christ! I wonder if Monger's got some morphine kicking about. I wouldn't put it past him. 2007, David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 304:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, it, past.
    • He smashed the ball with his left foot and put it past the goalkeeper.

Forms

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