put paid to
Verb
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Verb
put paid to
- (chiefly, UK, dated) To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid".
- (chiefly, UK, idiomatic) To terminate; to cancel (plans or expectations); to stop something once and for all.
- The rain put paid to our plans for a picnic.
- To demonstrate as completely false.
- The young man standing outside the door, shaking like a leaf, looking like he was about to pee himself, put paid to his claim in a quavering voice, "I am not afraid!"
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