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View synonyms for put across

put across

verb

  1. adverb to communicate in a comprehensible way

    he couldn't put things across very well

  2. put one across informal.
    to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception

    they put one across their teacher

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The slaves fell away from him in surprise and alarm, not understanding what he was trying to put across.

Recover our canoe, and put across the lake to where Will stands on that dock.

The ninth game went to forty-love before Holt succeeded in handling one of the sizzling serves that Amy put across.

It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.

"Some pretty shady transactions were put across in those early days," Bryant commented.

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