Synonyms of putting away

putting away

verb

present participle of put away

1

as in burying

to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea

the naval authorities put away the body yesterday

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burying
• interring
• tombing
• hearsing
• inhuming
• entombing
• hiding
• laying
• immuring
• reinterring
• inurning
• enshrining
• concealing
• shading
• shielding
• obscuring
• ensconcing
• enshrouding
• covering
• reburying
• coffining
• curtaining
• shrouding
• cloaking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unearthing
• exhuming
• burning
• showing
• displaying
• exhibiting
• disclosing
• disinterring
• revealing
• cremating
• discovering
• exposing
• baring
• uncoffining

2

as in murdering

to put to death deliberately

after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdering
• assassinating
• taking out
• doing in
• doing away with
• executing
• slaying
• knocking off
• bumping off
• killing
• getting
• rubbing out
• dispatching
• neutralizing
• cutting down
• blowing away
• terminating
• liquidating
• carrying off
• snuffing
• whacking
• shooting down
• destroying
• icing
• slaughtering
• shooting
• offing
• blotting out
• croaking
• wiping out
• mowing (down)
• claiming
• eliminating
• zapping
• felling
• eradicating
• smiting
• butchering
• massacring
• exterminating
• annihilating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raising
• restoring
• reviving
• animating
• resurrecting
• resuscitating

3

as in eating

to take in as food

can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eating
• consuming
• partaking (of)
• tucking (away or in)
• putting down
• picking (at)
• devouring
• licking
• ingesting
• chewing
• nibbling (on)
• mouthing (down)
• gobbling (up or down)
• gnawing (at or on)
• swallowing
• glutting (on)
• chowing (down on)
• polishing off
• digesting
• pigging out
• snarfing (down)
• tasting
• gulping
• dining
• scoffing
• relishing
• downing
• wolfing
• slopping
• savouring
• savoring
• swilling
• gorging
• lapping
• munching
• feasting
• banqueting
• gumming
• bolting
• lunching
• supping
• regaling
• faring
• snacking
• breakfasting
• dispatching
• nursing
• gormandizing
• noshing