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Put down

verb

Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place. Synonyms: place down, set down.

Put in a horizontal position. Synonyms: lay, repose. "Lay the patient carefully onto the bed"

Cause to come to the ground. Synonyms: bring down, land.

Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally. Synonyms: degrade, demean, disgrace, take down. "His critics took him down after the lecture"

Leave or unload. Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, set down, unload. "Drop off the passengers at the hotel"

Put (an animal) to death. Synonym: destroy. "The sick cat had to be put down"

Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.. Synonyms: get down, set down, write down.

Make a record of; set down in permanent form. Synonyms: enter, record.

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"Put down" Quotes from Famous Books

... of this new industry which had arisen within the limits of their possessions, they pursued the vessels of the buccaneers wherever they were seen, and relentlessly destroyed them and their crews. But there were not enough Spanish vessels to put down the trade in dried beef; more European vessels—generally English and French—stopped at San Domingo; more bands of hunting sailors made their way into the interior. When these daring fellows knew that the Spaniards were determined to break up their ...

— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton

... I had found out; namely, that Paula was about my own age. What happiness! This fact I repeated over and over until Louis told me to keep quiet. This attitude on his part I put down as discontent because Paula wasn't a boy, so I kept repeating, "Paula's the ...

— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte

... should feel cold, Sarah," he replied, pointing his shadowy fingers towards the grate, where an abundant fire blazed; "I am sure you have put down as much wood ...

— Turns of Fortune - And Other Tales • Mrs. S. C. Hall

... the table, while at the prophet's right hand there sat a convict with a twenty year jail sentence hanging over him—John Colver, the "wobbly" poet! Again an ancient phrase learned in childhood came floating through my mind: "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and ...

— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair

... lived an' where their descendants are breathin' down each other's necks because there's so many of them? There was no snakes there! St. Patrick drove them out. What sets this world apart from all the other livable planets men have put down their smelly spaceships on? There's no snakes here! St. Patrick has great influence up in Heaven. He knew his fine Erse people would presently need more room than there was on Earth for them. So he'd a world set aside, and marked by the sign that no least trace of a serpent ...

— Attention Saint Patrick • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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