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put down

Verb

put down (third-person singular simple present puts down, present participle putting down, simple past and past participle put down)

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see put, down
Why don't you put down your briefcase and stay awhile?
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC ↗; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC ↗:
  "There he is!" cried Mrs. Flanders, coming round the rock and covering the whole space of the beach in a few seconds. "What has he got hold of? Put it down, Jacob! Drop it this moment!
(idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
Antonyms: compliment, talk up
They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
- 1965, The Who, My Generation:
  People try to put us down / Just because we get around.
(of money as deposit) To pay.
We put down a $1,000 deposit.
To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
Synonyms: end, stop, eliminate, extinguish
The government quickly put down the insurrection.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down, The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
(euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
Synonyms: put to sleep, euthanize
Rex was in so much pain, they had to put him down.
- 2016, Dog found buried alive in Redcar with nail in head‎, BBC:
  A couple walking in Kirkleatham Woods, Redcar, heard whimpering and found the terrier-type animal in a mound of earth at about midday. It was rushed to a vet but its injuries were so serious it had to be put down.
(euphemistic) To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
Synonyms: execute, down, eliminate
To write (something).
Put down the first thing you think of on this piece of paper.
To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
Antonyms: pick up
Synonyms: hang up
Don't put the phone down. I want a quick word with him, too.
To add a name to a list.
I've put myself down for the new Spanish conversation course.
(UK) To make prices, or taxes, lower.
BP are putting petrol and diesel down in what could be the start of a price war.
(idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
I had just put Mary down when you rang. So now she's crying again.
(idiomatic) To give something as a reason for something else.
She put her long life down to daily meditation.
(aviation, idiomatic, of an aircraft) To land.
The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.
(idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
Antonyms: pick up
The taxi put him down outside the hotel.
(idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
I was unable to put down The Stand: it was that exciting.
(slang, United States) To drink.
I put down two bottles of red wine.
(obsolete, printing) To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
Antonyms: put up