put

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put is on the Basic English 850 List.
push - put - quality
put is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
push - put - quality

Pronunciation[change]

Verb[change]

Plain form
put

Third-person singular
puts

Past tense
put

Past participle
put

Present participle
putting

  1. When you put a thing someplace, you move a thing to a place.
    I always put my books on the table when I get home from school.
  2. The past tense and past participle of put.
    The person stopped reading the book and put it on the table.