One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In eighteen sixty-one, the American Civil War put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It put the Confederate states in the position of fighting for slavery -- even though most of the soldiers were too poor to own slaves.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

Nautilus was put to sea for the first time on January seventeenth, nineteen fifty-five.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

They said he put the first letters of his names -- O and K -- on each object people gave him to send on the train.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She says Turkey has approved many legal reforms as part of its efforts to join the European Union -- but these have not necessarily been put into action.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

And they put that batter up to bake a delicious Mickey-cake.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

"How do you make sure you are designing a system where you are going to constrain risk taking, you can prevent crises from spreading,and -- if a major institution managed itself to the edge of the abyss -- that we are able to put them out of their misery."

VOA: special.2010.04.16

When a baby is put face down in a bed, it begins to re-breathe carbon dioxide, which is toxic.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

"It's hurt the Thai economy - it's put Thailand back two to three years - tourism has been badly affected.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"For the first time ever we have the chance to put al-Qaida and related groups between a hammer and an anvil,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Their aim is to work out disagreements that newspapers here say have put U.S.-Israeli relations at their worst in years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

His round-trip commute to work is less than that. "I wouldn't have to put a dime of gas in this ever."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30