put

verb (EXPRESS)

/pʊt/ (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)

Definition

C2 [T usually + adv/prep] to express something in words: She wanted to tell him that she didn't want to see him any more, but she didn't know how to put it. We're going to have to work very hard, but as Chris so succinctly put it, there's no gain without pain. Why do you always have to put things so crudely? Has everyone had a chance to put their point of view?Saying and utteringSaying again put a price/value/figure on sth › to say what you think the price or value of something is: The agent has put a price of £120,000 on our house. You can't put a value on friendship (= say what it is worth).Assessing and estimating valueAnalysing and evaluating to put it bluntly, simply, mildly, etc. › used to describe the way you are expressing an event or opinion: To put it bluntly, you're going to have to improve. He was annoyed, to put it mildly (= he was very annoyed).Ways of talking

(Definition of put verb (EXPRESS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)