Synonyms for put out
- verb
- noun
Most common
bother provoke disconcert bring down hold out extend trouble issue
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Bother — to cause something to be out, particularly To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose…
bother, provoke, disconcert, bring down, upset, burn up, confuse, disturb, flurry, quell, ruffle, inflame, rile, unsettle, displease, perturb, discompose rare, mortify dated
2. Hold out
hold out, extend, stretch forth, stretch out, exsert rare
3. Trouble
trouble, inconvenience, disoblige rare UK, discommode rare, incommode formal rare
Other
get, eject, douse, send out, give off, put under, throw out, remove, boot out, chuck, pose, extinct
Noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To cause something to be out, particularly To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight.
- v. 2
To blind (eyes).
You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out!
- v. 3
To place outside, to remove, particularly
Don’t forget to put out the dog.
- n. 1
A play in which a batter is retired.
Example sentences
- upset Tom was too upset to talk about what had happened.
- disconcert I don't mean to disconcert you, but there's a spider in your hair.
- extend I want to extend my stay here for a few more days.
By length
- 3 letters
- get1
- 4 letters
- pose1, rile1
- 5 letters
- issue2, upset2, chuck1, quell1, eject2, douse1
- 6 letters
- remove2, bother2, extend2, flurry2, ruffle2, exsert
- 7 letters
- release2, trouble2, publish2, confuse2, extinct2, disturb2, provoke2, inflame2, perturb2, mortify3
- 8 letters
- unsettle3
- 9 letters
- displease2, disoblige, incommode
- 10 letters
- disconcert3, discompose, discommode
- 13 letters
- inconvenience4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (issue2 = 2 syllables).