put down
Verb
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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
- (add a name to a list) register; see also Thesaurus:enlist
- (land an aircraft) set down, touch down
- French: médire
- German: runtermachen (slang), runterputzen (coll.)
- Spanish: menospreciar
- French: déposer
- German: hinterlegen
- Spanish: pagar un depósito
- French: mater
- German: niederschlagen, unterdrücken
- French: endormir
- German: einschläfern
- Italian: abbattere
- Russian: усыпля́ть
- German: herabsetzen, runtersetzen (coll.)
- German: hinlegen, niederlegen
- German: zurückführen
- German: aufsetzen
put down (plural put downs)
- Alternative spelling of put-down
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