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put up
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of PUT UP
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to form by putting together parts or materials <plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens>
Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
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to offer for sale to the public <put their possessions up for auction>
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to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends <put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies>
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