What does put away mean?

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[v] place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape(The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend She locked her jewels in the safe)[v] throw or cast away(Put away your worries)[v] lock up or confine, in or as in a jail(The suspects were imprisoned without

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put away - The Free Dictionary

[v] place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
(The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend She locked her jewels in the safe)

[v] throw or cast away
(Put away your worries)

[v] lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
(The suspects were imprisoned without trial the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life)

[v] stop using
(the children were told to put away their toys the students put away their notebooks)

[v] kill gently, as with an injection
(the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep)

[v] eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
(My son tucked in a whole pizza)

[v] turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
(it's time for you to put away childish things)

Other vocabulary

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.