Definition of "put under" []

• Administer an anesthetic drug to (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Without hesitation, Lee relieved him on July 3 and broke up his cumbersome command: Jones's half division was put under Longstreet; Magruder's own division, made up of Toombs's and Barksdale's brigades, was consolidated with McLaws's.2"
• "She makes me think of the time when a neighbor in the communal apartment on our landing had diphtheria and all three families were put under isolation by a local polyclinic."
• "This got out of hand, and Alamance County and Caswell County were both declared in a state of insurrection and put under martial law."