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put down
Found in thesaurus: put, lay, place, set, position, pose, arrive, come, get, chagrin, humiliate, mortify, humble, abase, deliver, write, preserve, save, derision
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put down
place or set down; write down, put to print; crush, repress (riots); humiliate, belittle (Slang); kill or destroy (animals); disgrace, shame, crushing retort
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Putting down
Putting down may refer to:
- Animal euthanasia
- Putdown, an insult
- In cricket, a wicket being put down
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put down
Verb
1. cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"
(synonym) set down, place down
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(hyponym) plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
2. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
(synonym) lay, repose
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(hyponym) rail
(cause) lie
(see-also) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
3. cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
(synonym) land, bring down
(hypernym) arrive, get, come
(cause) land, set down
(classification) air travel, aviation, air
4. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
(synonym) take down, degrade, disgrace, demean
(hypernym) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
(hyponym) reduce
(derivation) put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown
5. leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;
(synonym) drop, set down, unload, discharge
(hypernym) deliver
(hyponym) wharf
6. put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
(synonym) write down, set down, get down
(hypernym) write
(hyponym) transcribe
7. make a record of; set down in permanent form
(synonym) record, enter
(hypernym) save, preserve
(hyponym) tally, chalk up
(classification) recording, transcription
put-down
Noun
1. a crushing remark
(synonym) squelch, squelcher, takedown
(hypernym) derision
(derivation) take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down
(classification) colloquialism
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put down
položit; napsat/zapsat (si) co; složit; potlačit; uhasit
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put down
ośmieszać/upokarzać kogoś; kłaść coś; zapisywać coś; wpłacać (część należnej kwoty); tłumić coś; usypiać (zwierzę); kłaść (dziecko) spać
put something down to something
przypisywać coś czemuś
