put through

put someone/something through

to arrange for a telephone call to be made to a place or person. The international operator put me through to London. Passengers could put through calls on their cell phones.

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put someone/yourself through something

to pay for someone or for yourself to go to school. I ended up putting my granddaughter through school. My father wasn't well and couldn't work, so all of us kids put ourselves through college.

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put someone through something

1. to force someone to experience something unpleasant in order to help them. His teacher put him through six months of writing essays every day to improve his skills.

2. to unintentionally cause someone to experience something painful. Elaine put her daughter through a kind of hell when she divorced the child's father.

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