put about

Definitions

1. 1

   To change direction.

   • It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about.
2. 2

   To circulate, spread or disseminate.

   • to put about a rumour
   • We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer.
3. 3

   disturbed

   disturbed; upset

   • I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

The neighborhood

• neighborput it about
• neighborput oneself about