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setdown
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Word definitions for setdown in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Setdown \Set"down`\ (s[e^]t"doun`), n. The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a disparaging remark, a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect. Also called put-down .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The humble of a person by act or words. 2 A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
Usage examples of setdown.
Trader Olanek had disappeared within it immediately upon setdown, Dagmar trailing behind like a double-sized shadow.
Not that she had meant it for more than a setdown, yet if you were going to live by the Three Oaths, then you had to stand by what you said.
By the time it disappeared she lay exhausted on the hot black setdown, fingers scrabbling, muttering to herself.
He was stinging and smarting from the setdown his uncle had given him.
Many blast-offs and setdowns, with the pilot riding in on deter rockets, had built up that burn.
He and his men would take advantage of any system failures aboard the station, but until actual setdown, they would attack as if the outpost were at peak operating efficiency.
The transport service on which he had booked his team had been terminated and their monies returned, but the refund alone was barely sufficient to bribe their way to the planet's surface, and at that, comparatively unsatisfactory, setdown point.