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View synonyms for put across
put across
verb
- adverb to communicate in a comprehensible way
he couldn't put things across very well
- put one across informal.to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
they put one across their teacher
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The slaves fell away from him in surprise and alarm, not understanding what he was trying to put across.
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Recover our canoe, and put across the lake to where Will stands on that dock.
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The ninth game went to forty-love before Holt succeeded in handling one of the sizzling serves that Amy put across.
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It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.
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"Some pretty shady transactions were put across in those early days," Bryant commented.
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