PUTTING UP Synonyms: 208 Similar and Opposite Words

putting up

verb

present participle of put up

as in erecting

to fix in an upright position the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof

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as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens

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as in selling

to offer for sale to the public put their possessions up for auction

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as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter the university puts up students in a variety of buildings

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as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies

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as in storing

to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter

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Recent Examples of putting up According to Bloomberg, Walter is now shopping around private deals that offer double-digit yields, putting up his own personal stake in his asset management firm as collateral. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026 Existing fantasy soccer fans are used to putting up with these headaches, but the WSL isn’t only trying to appeal to them. — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 19 Aug. 2026 Across the past two seasons, Coventry netted 27 times from back-post crosses, putting up almost equal chance numbers with crosses from either side. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 As for additional traffic on the Parkway West itself, Zang says there won't be significant impact until crews start putting up steel over the highway. — John Shumway, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 The Last House is putting up big viewing hours on Netflix, planting itself at the #1 spot on the service’s top 10 movie list since release. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 With an open-door policy, the mission has been a refuge for as many as 1,000 people, at one point putting up hundreds of cots nightly in its chapel to accommodate women from the street. — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Customers pay in small instalments, often through mobile apps, instead of putting up the full price upfront. — ABC News, 31 July 2026 Alaina Mencinger Republican challenger Ralph Heap is putting up a fight for one of two Arizona Corporation Commission seats currently held by incumbents Nick Myers and Kevin Thompson. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2026

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In 2011, after the community board and Landmarks greenlit Spence’s erecting a 33-foot-tall glass enclosure to connect its East 91st Street campus with an adjacent building, neighbors took their complaints to press.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2026
In fact, experts generally hold that splitting the shots will decrease vaccination rates for all three diseases by erecting an unnecessary obstacle to the shots.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

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The vast majority of SpaceX's launches this year — at the moment, 74 of them — have been devoted to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of nearly 11,000 operational satellites.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
For anyone building toward a finer piece, a moissanite tennis necklace offers a graceful starting point.

— Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

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There are concerns around selling the versatile Spence but new signing Andy Robertson will provide competition at left-back for Destiny Udogie, while Archie Gray can cover Pedro Porro on the opposite side.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Another state-run newspaper, Global New Light of Myanmar, said authorities asked street food vendors selling high-risk items to close for about three days to curb the spread.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of selling

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Crucially, Cursor gains unparalleled access to xAI's vast GPU infrastructure, including the Colossus data center housing 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, with plans for a massive expansion to 500,000.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Plaintiffs' attorney Alexander Shalom argued that housing the plaintiffs in a segregated unit violates their constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of housing

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Instead of storing this platform ambient heat underground for the winter, just use it right now.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
The two reservoirs provide hydroelectricity, drinking and irrigation water to millions of Americans across the West by storing up the Colorado River.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of storing

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Previous contracts establishing long-term benefits have been set in increments of 10 or even 20 years, raising the stakes for labor and the state.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
The war in the Middle East has made cargoes more scarce and, in turn, more expensive, raising the prospects of another energy crunch.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of raising

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Better access began not with constructing another clinic or hiring an entirely new workforce, but with examining how existing capacity was used.

— Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026