put away

ranger

Remettre quelque chose à sa place habituelle après l’avoir utilisé.

En anglais simple : To return something to the place where it is kept when you finish using it.

• Put away your toys, please.
• He put the clean dishes away.
• Have you put away the tools yet?

Comment l'utiliser : put something away (Please put your books away after class.)

Synonymes : tidy away, store

Contraires : take out

Expressions courantes : put away something, put away toys

économiser, mettre de côté

Garder de l’argent ou d’autres choses pour les utiliser plus tard.

En anglais simple : To save money or other things so you can use them later.

• I put away a little money each week.
• They put food away for the winter.
• Have you put anything away for emergencies?

Comment l'utiliser : put something away for something (We put some money away for our holiday.)

Synonymes : save, set aside, store

Contraires : spend

Expressions courantes : put away money, put away something

emprisonner, interner

Faire enfermer quelqu’un en prison ou dans un hôpital psychiatrique.

En anglais simple : If someone is sent to prison or a hospital for mental illness, they are kept there.

• They put the robber away.
• He was put away for twenty years.
• In those days, families sometimes put mentally ill relatives away.

Comment l'utiliser : put someone away for a period (The judge put him away for eight years.)

Synonymes : lock up, confine, imprison

Contraires : release

Expressions courantes : put away someone, put someone away

engloutir, consommer

Manger ou boire une grande quantité de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : If you do this, you eat or drink a lot of something.

• He put away five burgers.
• How much beer did they put away?
• She can put away an enormous breakfast.

Comment l'utiliser : put away something (He can put away three sandwiches in minutes.); put something away (That pizza was huge, but she put it away.)

Synonymes : devour, consume

Expressions courantes : put away food, put away a meal, put away several beers

mettre KO

Frapper un adversaire si fort qu’il ne peut plus continuer le combat.

En anglais simple : To hit an opponent so hard that they cannot continue fighting.

• The boxer put his opponent away.
• One powerful punch put her away.
• Can he put away the champion before the final round?

Comment l'utiliser : put someone away in a round (She put her opponent away in the third round.)

Synonymes : knock out

Expressions courantes : put away an opponent, put someone away

tuer, liquider

Tuer quelqu’un, souvent volontairement et en secret.

En anglais simple : To kill someone, often deliberately and secretly.

• The gang put him away.
• They planned to put away the only witness.
• Was she paid to put her rival away?

Comment l'utiliser : put someone away (The gang hired a man to put the witness away.)

Synonymes : kill, murder

Expressions courantes : put away someone, put someone away