put up
Raise or house
Put up collects meanings around the ideas of raising, building, or providing.
You put up a shelf by mounting it; you put up a tent by erecting it.
To put up money is to provide it as a stake or investment.
If you put someone up, you give them a place to stay.
To put up with something is to tolerate it, often reluctantly: I can't put up with this noise anymore.
Put up or shut up challenges someone to back their words with action.
One receiving guests
- lodgeTemporary woodland dwelling
- houseResidential building
- shelterProtected place or structure
- boardFlat rigid panel
billet · quarter · guest · spare room · overnight · hospitality · stay · sleepover
Vertical structural beam
- hangSuspend from above
- mountClimb up or steed
- exhibitItem publicly displayed
- showMake something apparent
present · advertise · announce · sign · notice · poster · billboard · flyer
build
Create a structure
install · frame · scaffold · mount · hoist · structure · tent · shelter · fence · wall
host
One receiving guests
board · billet · quarter · guest · spare room · overnight · hospitality · stay · sleepover · couchsurfing
post
Vertical structural beam
show · present · advertise · announce · sign · notice · poster · billboard · flyer · placard
endure
Suffer through without yielding
stomach · swallow · suffer · withstand · accept · live with · brook · countenance · grin and bear it · weather
money
Currency for transactions
finance · bankroll · fund · capital · provide · supply · front · chip in · pledge · backing
- payingpay, payment plan, pay out, pay off, foot the bill
put uptear down
Destroy a structure
demolish · take down · knock down · dismantle · raze
up, put, putter, put up with, putting up, put-up, put up a fight, puts up