- put through
- phrasal verb
[transitive]
Word forms "put through":
present tense I/you/we/they put through he/she/it puts through present participle putting through past tense put through past participle put through1) put someone through something to make someone do or experience something difficult or unpleasantChildren shouldn't be put through the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
put someone through hell (= make someone have an extremely unpleasant experience):The team are put through a daily fitness programme.
put someone through it (= make someone experience something unpleasant):He's put me through absolute hell during the last year.
He really put Jones through it when the reports were late.
2) put someone/something through something to test someone or something in order to make sure everything is working correctlyHe was put through a series of tests to discover what was wrong with him.
The drug has been put through several trials.
3) if you put a person or call through, you connect someone to the person they want to speak to on the telephoneput someone/something through to someone:The switchboard operator refused to put the call through.
Can you put me through to the accounts department, please?
4) to make it certain that something is accepted, approved, or successfully completedput something through something:Their huge majority means they can put through virtually any legislation they want.
A string of similar measures had already been put through Parliament.
5) put someone through school/university/college to pay for someone to be a student at a school, university, or college
English dictionary. 2014.