1. A crushing remark
   "Her witty put-down silenced the heckler";
   - squelch [informal], squelcher, takedown

1. Put or set something down in a specific location
   "put down your bags here";
   - set down, place down
    
2. Put in a horizontal position
   "put down the books on the table";
   - lay, repose
    
3. Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
   "She tends to put down younger women colleagues";
   - take down, degrade, disgrace, demean
    
4. Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
   "I put down my observations in a notebook";
   - write down, set down, get down
    
5. Make a record of; set down in permanent form
   "He put down his thoughts in his journal";
   - record, enter
    
6. Remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
   "The taxi put downd its passengers at the airport";
   - drop, drop off, set down, unload, discharge
    
7. (air travel) cause to come to the ground
   "the pilot managed to put down the aeroplane safely";
   - land, bring down
    
8. Put (an animal) to death
   "the sick cat had to be put down";
   - destroy, put away, put to sleep
    
9. Suppress or quell forcefully
   "The military put down the rebellion"
    
10. Make an initial payment
    "We put down a deposit on the house"

Derived forms: puts down, putting down, put-downs, put down

See also: position

Type of: abase, arrive, chagrin, come, deliver, derision, euthanase [Brit], euthanatise [Brit, rare], euthanatize [rare], euthanise [Brit], euthanize, get, humble, humiliate, kill, lay, mortify, place, pose, position, preserve, put, save, set, write

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