"put up to" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts up to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put up to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> up to"
      },
      "expansion": "put up to (third-person singular simple present puts up to, present participle putting up to, simple past and past participle put up to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Stephen Crane, A Mystery of Heroism",
          "text": "\"He's goin' to that well there after water.\"\n\"We ain't dyin' of thirst, are we? That's foolishness.\"\n\"Well, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer, Detective",
          "text": "\"I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936 December 21, “Foreign News: Gloucester”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-02",
          "text": "This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . . Gloucester's young Scottish Duchess put him up to telling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), \"You are a damn fool if you run after her now!\" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 29, Marc Lacey, “'Virtual kidnappings' in Mexico play on very real fears”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-02",
          "text": "[T]hree suspects were brothers, ages 19, 31 and 34, who were caught collecting money squeezed from a victim. The two younger brothers blamed their older sibling, who has been in and out of prison for years, for putting them up to it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_up_to-en-verb-b~3peDPQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "encourage",
          "encourage"
        ],
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
        [
          "wrong",
          "wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
          "word": "entice"
        },
        {
          "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
          "word": "induce"
        },
        {
          "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
          "word": "inveigle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "audio": "En-au-put up to.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-put_up_to.ogg/En-au-put_up_to.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-put_up_to.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put up to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts up to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put up to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put up to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> up to"
      },
      "expansion": "put up to (third-person singular simple present puts up to, present participle putting up to, simple past and past participle put up to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (to)",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Stephen Crane, A Mystery of Heroism",
          "text": "\"He's goin' to that well there after water.\"\n\"We ain't dyin' of thirst, are we? That's foolishness.\"\n\"Well, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in Tom Sawyer, Detective",
          "text": "\"I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936 December 21, “Foreign News: Gloucester”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-02",
          "text": "This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . . Gloucester's young Scottish Duchess put him up to telling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), \"You are a damn fool if you run after her now!\" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 April 29, Marc Lacey, “'Virtual kidnappings' in Mexico play on very real fears”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-02",
          "text": "[T]hree suspects were brothers, ages 19, 31 and 34, who were caught collecting money squeezed from a victim. The two younger brothers blamed their older sibling, who has been in and out of prison for years, for putting them up to it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "encourage",
          "encourage"
        ],
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ],
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
        [
          "wrong",
          "wrong"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put up to.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-put_up_to.ogg/En-au-put_up_to.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-put_up_to.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
      "word": "entice"
    },
    {
      "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
      "word": "induce"
    },
    {
      "sense": "lead by persuasion or influence",
      "word": "inveigle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put up to"
}