put forth
Verb
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Verb
put forth
- (transitive) To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
- to put forth an effort
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 1, p. 3,
- (transitive) To extend forward (a body part or something held).
- (transitive) To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
- (transitive, obsolete) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
- (transitive) To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
- (transitive, intransitive) (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).
- compare put forward, put out, put up
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