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put up
1. adj. alternative form of put-up
2. v. To place in a high location.
Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
3. v. To hang or mount.
Many people put up messages on their refrigerators.
4. v. To style (the hair) up on the head instead of letting it hang down.
5. v. (transitive, idiomatic) To cajole or dare to do something (used with to).
I think someone put him up to it.
6. v. (transitive, idiomatic) To store away.
Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.
7. v. (transitive, idiomatic) To house, shelter, or take in.
We can put you up for the night.
8. v. (transitive, idiomatic) To present, especially in "put up a fight".
That last fighter put up quite a fight.
They didn't put up much resistance.
9. v. To endure, put up with, tolerate.
10. v. To provide funds in advance.
Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.
11. v. To build a structure.
12. v. To make available, to offer.
The picture was put up for auction.
I put my first child up for adoption.
13. v. (of meat, fruit and vegetables) To can; to process by sterilising and storing in a bottle or can.
Analysis
put		©
1. v. To place something somewhere.
She put her books on the table.
2. v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
Put your house in order!
He is putting all his energy into this one task.
up		©
1. adv. Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.
2. adv. (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state Thoroughly, completely.
I will mix up the puzzle pieces.
Tear up the contract.

Example Sentences

You see what I have to put up with?  So they put up the markers.  She has put up with so many employers that she just doesn't care anymore.  Tremble doesn't want to put up the cash, someone else will.  What do you think I'm going to do, put up new cobwebs where you've just taken them down?

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