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Put forth
verb
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Verb
- 1 To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving). transitive
"to put forth an effort"
- 2 To extend forward (a body part or something held). transitive
"Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."
- 3 To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). transitive
"They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit."
- 4 To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place. obsolete, transitive
"[…] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]"
- 5 To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.). transitive
"For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam."
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- 6 To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate. intransitive, transitive
"[…] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;"
- 7 (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven). intransitive, transitive
"[…] order for sea is given; / They have put forth the haven [—] / Where their appointment we may best discover, / And look on their endeavour."
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