put aside

1. 1.

   stop using

   “the children were told to put away their toys”

   “the students put away their notebooks”

   Synonymsput away
2. 2.

   turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily

   “it's time for you to put away childish things”

   Synonymsput away

   Broaderinterrupt

Questions about put aside

What does put aside mean?

put aside means "stop using". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for put aside?

Close synonyms include put away, put away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put aside a common word?

put aside is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.