Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of put-down English) vb. 1 (&lit put down English) 2 (context idiomatic English) To insult, belittle, or demean. 3 (context of money as deposit English) To pay. 4 To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. 5 (context euphemistic English) To euthanize (an animal). 6 To write (something). 7 (context of a telephone English) To terminate a call; to hang up. 8 To add a name to a list. 9 To make prices, or taxes, lower. 10 (context idiomatic English) To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 11 (context idiomatic of an aircraft English) To land. 12 (context idiomatic English) To drop off, or let them out of a vehicle. 13 (context idiomatic English) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
WordNet
v. cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here" [syn: set down, place down]
put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" [syn: lay, repose]
cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" [syn: land, bring down]
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" [syn: take down, degrade, disgrace, demean]
leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo; [syn: drop, set down, unload, discharge]
put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. [syn: write down, set down, get down]
make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: record, enter]
Usage examples of "put down".
I never put down enough roots to be able to register and vote, so I never did, not till after the fighting stopped and I settled down with your mother.
Telzey's disappearance in the wildlands of the park could be put down as an unexplained accident.
He saw the corner of some object that had been put down on the air-lock floor.
I put down the capacity of these boats according to the numbers they were really meant to hold.
You draw lines on a piece of paper, and put down classes of things.
The albino put down his burden, inspected the padlock and chain that held the gate shut, and snapped the hasp with a quick twist of his fingers.
Weve been ordered by the Althing to put down the uprising of the Diamonds in the southwest of Vinland.
We've been ordered by the Althing to put down the uprising of the Diamonds in the southwest of Vinland.
You draw lines on a piece of paper, and put down classes of things—.
Some of us nearly died and there was an abortive revolt put down with weaponry that made our flesh burn.
Their transport put down on Engwar's estate a few miles outside the city.