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It makes sense that it doesn't list joined words like bleary-eyed when its definition is obvious from the constituents bleary and eye, or inflected words because inflections like -ish and -ly each have the same meaning when modifying other words. But what about phrasal and prepositional verbs such as put off, put up, and put up with, where their meaning can't usually be deduced from the constituents such as put, off, up, and with ?



The definition of “put” has about two pages, with “put off” (five variants), “put up” (eight variants, including “put up with sb/st”) in those pages.

“Put out” also has a zillion variants in those two pages, but itself also is in the list of defining words.




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