put down
verb- To insult, belittle, or demean. · They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
- Of money as deposit, to pay. · We put down a $1,000 deposit.
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. · The government quickly put down the insurrection.
- To euthanize (an animal). · Rex was in so much pain, they had to put him down.
- To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- 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. · 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.
From the library
He tied her up, therefore, that she might have no chance of warning Sir Henry, and he hoped, no doubt, that when the whole countryside put down the baronet’s death to the curse of his family, as they certainly would do, he could win his wife back to accept an accomplished fact and to keep silent upon what she knew.
Then he put down his axe and sat beside the Scarecrow, who said, “It was a good fight, friend.”
She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality--deliberated on the probability of each statement--but with little success.
The king is either a king or no king; if he be acknowledged as sovereign of France, he should be upheld in peace and tranquillity; and this can best be effected by employing the most inflexible agents to put down every attempt at conspiracy—’tis the best and surest means of preventing mischief.”
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