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put something about/around
phrasal verb with putverbuk /pʊt/ us /pʊt/present participleputting | past tense and past participleput
UKinformal
to tell a lot of people something that is not true: 到处散布（谣言），造谣
[ + that ]I'd like to know who put the rumour around that I'm pregnant.我想知道谁在到处造谣说我怀孕了。
Someone's been putting it about that Dan is leaving.有人在四处造谣说丹要走了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to say something not true in order to deceive
lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.
tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree.
lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it.
fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.
deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologically
mythologize
perjure
perjury
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
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