Synonyms of putting up

putting up

verb

present participle of put up

1

as in erecting

to fix in an upright position

the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erecting
• raising
• setting up
• rearing
• lifting
• hoisting
• pitching
• propping (up)
• shoring (up)
• upending
• bracing
• jacking (up)
• supporting
• picking up
• elevating
• upraising
• upholding
• upping
• buttressing
• perking (up)
• hiking
• uplifting
• craning
• heightening
• boosting
• heaving
• hefting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tearing down
• flattening
• leveling
• demolishing
• knocking down
• levelling
• razing

2

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• making
• making up
• setting up
• putting together
• creating
• erecting
• manufacturing
• establishing
• designing
• piecing
• fabricating
• producing
• rearing
• raising
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• confecting
• throwing up
• generating
• rebuilding
• shaping
• organizing
• rigging (up)
• molding
• forging
• beginning
• originating
• concocting
• inventing
• framing
• fashioning
• initiating
• hammering
• reconstructing
• founding
• innovating
• inaugurating
• carpentering
• instituting
• devising
• coining
• constituting
• imagining
• prefabricating
• handcrafting
• combining
• reedifying
• retrofitting
• conceiving
• reassembling
• redeveloping
• fathering
• contriving
• jerry-building
• uniting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• taking down
• tearing down
• knocking down
• pulling down
• striking
• dismantling
• destroying
• blowing up
• disassembling
• wrecking
• dismembering
• shattering
• smashing
• devastating
• ruining
• flattening
• demolishing
• leveling
• levelling
• pulverizing
• exploding
• razing
• demounting
• ruinating
• dividing
• detaching
• separating
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• disjoining
• disuniting

3

as in selling

to offer for sale to the public

put their possessions up for auction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selling
• dealing (in)
• marketing
• distributing
• retailing
• merchandising
• vending
• trafficking (in)
• merchandizing
• providing
• promoting
• exporting
• wholesaling
• exchanging
• reselling
• peddling
• advertising
• trading
• supplying
• hawking
• preselling
• keeping
• handling
• bartering
• bargaining
• plugging
• remarketing
• haggling
• touting
• auctioning
• carrying
• dickering
• stocking
• paltering
• boosting
• ballyhooing
• chaffering
• horse-trading

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buying
• purchasing

4

as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter

the university puts up students in a variety of buildings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• taking in
• accommodating
• lodging
• sheltering
• camping
• boarding
• roofing
• quartering
• rooming
• bestowing
• billeting
• bunking
• harboring
• encamping
• chambering
• domiciling
• bivouacking
• homing
• shedding
• bedding (down)
• stabling
• securing
• tenting
• roosting
• ensconcing
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting

5

as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plotting
• scheming
• planning
• intriguing
• cooking (up)
• colluding
• conspiring
• conniving
• contriving
• machinating
• devising
• engineering
• designing
• laying out
• hatching
• counterplotting
• concocting
• compassing
• manipulating
• brewing
• mapping
• jockeying
• shaping
• maneuvering
• framing

6

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• storing
• keeping
• stowing
• packing
• housing
• hangaring
• repositing
• warehousing
• filing
• shelving
• garaging
• cellaring