| VERB | communication | put over, get across | communicate successfully |
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| stative | put over, postpone, prorogue, hold over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off | hold back to a later time |
| Meaning | Communicate successfully. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "He put over the idea very well" | |
| Synonym | get across | |
| Broader | communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across | transmit information |
| Spanish | comunicar | |
| Catalan | comunicar | |
| Meaning | hold back to a later time. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonyms | postpone, prorogue, hold over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off | |
| Entails | cancel, call off, scratch, scrub | postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled |
| reschedule | Assign a new time and place for an event | |
| Narrower | call | stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather |
| hold | stop dealing with | |
| probate | put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence | |
| reprieve, respite | postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | |
| suspend | Render temporarily ineffective / ineffective / ineffective | |
| Broader | delay | Act later than planned, scheduled, or required |
| See also | put | put into a certain place or abstract location |
| Spanish | aplazar, demorar, posponer, postergar, retrasar | |
| Catalan | ajornar, endarrerir, posposar | |
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