Meaning of put paid to | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid".
   UK, dated
2. To put an end to.
   UK
3. To terminate; to cancel (plans or expectations); to preclude (possibilities); to stop (something) once and for all.
   UK, idiomatic

Examples

“Well, then, I'll put paid to that little account.”

“When peace came in 1802 she regained a measure of control, but it was wrested from her when war with Britain broke out once more in 1805 and Nelson put paid to Spanish sea power in the Atlantic at the Battle of Trafalgar.”

“If Harry had always seemed a sickly child, Harrow put paid to notions that he was really a physical weakling.”

“This puts paid to the argument that a claimant who comes to a nuisance has impliedly consented to the continuance of that nuisance.”

“The Guardian recently uncovered nearly 200 new projects – “carbon bombs” – that if completed would put paid to the world’s chances of limiting global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.”

“The rain put paid to our plans for a picnic.”

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