Wiktionary
vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To return something to its original place. 2 (lb en intransitive nautical en) To turn back; to return. 3 (lb en transitive en) To postpone an arranged event or appointment. 4 (lb en transitive idiomatic) To drink fast; to knock down alcohol. 5 (lb en transitive idiomatic) To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time.
WordNet
v. put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" [syn: replace]
cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000" [syn: set back, knock back]
Usage examples of "put back".
We'd be going back on the Anniversary, but first she had to be taken apart and put back together again.
I made Dad stop the car, and have the top put back, even though it was freezing cold, for I had never been in New York before (when I'd gone to France, I had sailed from New Orleans) and I wanted to see everything.
For example, Klaus Barbie, the butcher of Lyon [France], was taken over by US intelligence and put back to work.
Chancing to raise her eyes as the elder lady was regarding her, she playfully put back her hair, which was simply braided on her forehead.
Veere returns to New York and puts back in his bank whatever it is that it is advisable for him to put back, or takes out whatever it is that seems best to take out, and gets himself all rounded up so there is no chance of his going to jail, he remembers that there is a slight difference between him and Little Alfie, so what does Mr.
Then she put back the baby girl, who had just vomited over her frock.
His Grace's messenger reached me overlate, and for all that I set out with a company of my men, I put back when I had reached Lautrec upon hearing that already a decisive battle had been fought and that our side had suffered a crushing defeat.
Celia blushed, and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
How many times has this body died, and been put back together again?
Gull, to put back all the stuff you swept off your desk when you decided to reflectively hump your patient all over it.
The Venetians have planted and nurtured a seed in this war that will be impossible to put back into the seed-pod.