put back
Britishverb
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to return to its former place
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to move to a later time or date
the wedding was put back a fortnight
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to delay or impede the progress of
the strike put back production severely
Example Sentences
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Unsurprisingly, the unvarnished thoughts couldn’t be put back into the bottle.
All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.
Justice Edmonds’s handkerchief was taken out of his pocket, tied in knots and put back.
From Literature
“They were getting rid of the Lee and the Stonewall Jackson statues, and they said, ‘We don’t want them put back up for further veneration,’” Hamza Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times
Finch said the surgeon wanted her to have the implant washed and put back in, but she said she just wanted to return home to her children.
From BBC
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