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View synonyms for put through

put through

verb

  1. to carry out to a conclusion

    he put through his plan

  2. also preposition to organize the processing of

    she put through his application to join the organization

  3. to connect by telephone
  4. to make (a telephone call)
“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 victim was put through several forensic procedures, including a lie detector test.

The Italian judicial system has essentially been put through the ringer in this case, and has come out stained.

Greig asked to be connected to "Kate, my grandaughter," and was put through by the receptionist.

She's been put through hell, and to see her taking the blame all by her frail and brilliant self, isn't it ridiculous?

No soldier is being put through this course to be “fixed,” they are told up front.

I had a plan for her that I thought I could put through without much trouble, but I found out to-day that it isn't so easy.

Most of the poems in the little volume which his friends put through the press in the year 1800 are written in standard English.

Guess if they had lived I'd been put through college and all the rest of it.

Under Sydenham's shrewd and energetic leadership a business programme of long-delayed reforms was put through.

I have put through a good many deals in my life in the big game, but this looks almost too raw.

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