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61put down — place or set down; write down, put to print; crush, repress (riots); humiliate, belittle (Slang); kill or destroy (animals); disgrace, shame, crushing retort …
62put down to — verb to state the cause of a situation. I put the high crime rate down to the high unemployment …
63put down — I attribute; inscribe, write down; slang, suppress, smash; slang, snub. See attribution, writing, restraint, contempt. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. silence, repress, crush; see defeat 1 , 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To bring to an end forcibly …
64put down — Euthanize, put to sleep …
65put-down — noun Date: 1962 an act or instance of putting down; especially a humiliating remark …
66put down — 1. Deposit, lay down. 2. Repress, crush, baffle, overthrow, destroy, conquer. 3. Degrade, confute, humiliate, abash, shame, disconcert, humble, extinguish, suppress. 4. Confute, silence …
67put down to experience — put (something) down to experience British, American & Australian, American & Australian to decide that instead of being upset about something bad that you have done or that has happened, you will learn from it. I m so ashamed. I let him take… …
68To put down — Put Put, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To …
69put down for — PHRASAL VERB If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing. [V n P P n] Put her down for a yes vote …
70put down for — verb to record that someone has offered to help, or contribute something. Put me down for one of the drivers …
