Meanings
verbput across (third-person singular simple present puts across, present participle putting across, simple past and past participle put across)
present singular third person puts across · participle present putting across
- to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.
- to convey or communicate.
Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.
2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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