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What (who) is putting down - definition
put down
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Put down; Putting down (disambiguation)
1.
If you put something down somewhere, you write or type it there.
Never put anything down on paper which might be used in evidence against you at a later date...
We've put down on our staff development plan for this year that we would like some technology courses...
I had prepared for the meeting by putting down what I wanted from them.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P in/on n, V P that, V P wh, also V P n (not pron)
2.
If you put down some money, you pay part of the price of something, and will pay the rest later.
He bought an investment property for $100,000 and put down $20,000...
He's got to put cash down.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
3.
When soldiers, police, or the government put down a riot or rebellion, they stop it by using force.
Soldiers went in to put down a rebellion.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
4.
If someone puts you down, they treat you in an unpleasant way by criticizing you in front of other people or making you appear foolish.
I know that I do put people down occasionally...
Racist jokes come from wanting to put down other kinds of people we feel threatened by.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
see also put-down
5.
When an animal is put down, it is killed because it is dangerous or very ill. (mainly BRIT)
Magistrates ordered his dog Samson to be put down immediately...
They think that any legislation that involved putting down dogs was wrong.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V P n (not pron), also V n P
put down
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Put down; Putting down (disambiguation)
v.
1) (d; tr.) ('to consider') to put down as (we can put this trip down as a business expense)
2) (d; tr.) to put down for ('to enter a pledge for') (I'll put you down for five tickets)
3) (BE) (d; tr.) ('to enter') to put down for (to put down one's son for Eton)
4)(d; tr.) ('to attribute') to put down to (to put a blunder down to inexperience)
put down
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Put down; Putting down (disambiguation)
1.
Deposit, lay down.
2.
Repress, crush, baffle, overthrow, destroy, conquer.
3.
Degrade, confute, humiliate, abash, shame, disconcert, humble, extinguish, suppress.
4.
Confute, silence.
Examples of use of putting down
1. Israel is thereby putting down a marker for the future.
2. The army lost 170 soldiers while putting down the insurrection.
3. He is accused of failing to take all reasonable precautions when putting down the poison.
4. "Kazakh interior troops have been seen practicing putting down mass disorders.
5. And the act of living through it again by putting down what I felt.