Direct
Direct verb - To cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway.
Put through is an antonym for direct.
Put through
Put through verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
Both terms in one sentence
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nicholas Sayre, once the Destroyer is unbound, who dies from the trauma his body's been put through, rather than a direct wound.
Source: Literature / Old Kingdom - British bank First Direct (part of HSBC) market themselves as an aversion of this — people calling through to their main telephone banking line are put through to the first available operator immediately, with no IVR in between (HSBC themselves use an IVR, however.)
Source: For Inconvenience, Press "1"
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Put through and Direct. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/put_through
Direct & Put through. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/put_through>.
Put through or Direct. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/direct/put_through.
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