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put aside

vb. 1 to save money 2 to ignore or intentionally forget something, temporarily or permanently, so that more important things can have one's attention.

Usage examples of "put aside".

As she put aside her cloak, and disclosed to me the pallor of her face and the disfiguring red about her gentle eyes, telling of tears and sleeplessness, all my own trouble seemed to vanish in the contemplation of her affliction.

That morning, for the first time since they began their long journey from northern Georgia, Sam had put aside his traveling clothes and donned his army uniform.

They had several put aside for when they did find someone trained in that art.

The unhappiness produced by the knowledge of that engagement had been a little put aside by Elizabeth Martin's calling at Mrs.

And so she had put aside her guilt, as much as any child can about her mother.

They reacted marvelously in other ways also, and so a plebiscite was held, and it was decided by an overwhelming vote to put aside artificial immortality and give the new wonderful science a chance.

Chett was cursing them loudly, his voice thick with the anger he never seemed to put aside.

If, then, he were this instant--put aside, that crime would not be his.

Moreover we put aside these figures, which seem to be reasons, and which are only words.

The memory surfaced, long put aside by the pressure of work, brought up now by the sight of Enge standing before her.

The combative urge was such a strong factor in scaling the evolutionary ladder that it cannot be easily put aside.

Belisarius put aside his dialogue with Aide, and devoted a moment to contemplating the man Dadaji Holkar.

Since both armies were so close, each to his foe, they never put aside their weapons but watched all the night through.