put down

1. 1.

   cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place

   “set down your bags here”

   Synonymsset downplace down

   Broaderput

   Narrowerplank
2. 2.

   put in a horizontal position

   “lay the books on the table”

   “lay the patient carefully onto the bed”

   Synonymslayrepose

   Broaderput

   Narrowerraillayblowburyrebury
3. 3.

   cause to come to the ground

   “the pilot managed to land the airplane safely”

   Synonymslandbring down

   Broaderarrive

   air travel

4. 4.

   reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

   “She tends to put down younger women colleagues”

   “His critics took him down after the lecture”

   Synonymstake downdegradedisgracedemean

   Broaderhumiliate

   Narrowerreducedehumanize
5. 5.

   remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

   “unload the cargo”

   “drop off the passengers at the hotel”

   Synonymsdropdrop offset downunloaddischarge

   Broaderdeliver

   Narrowerwharfair-drop
6. 6.

   put (an animal) to death

   “The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid”

   “the sick cat had to be put down”

   Synonymsdestroy

   Broaderkill
7. 7.

   put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.

   Synonymswrite downset downget down

   Broaderwrite

   Narrowertranscribenotatedash downnote
8. 8.

   make a record of; set down in permanent form

   Synonymsrecordenter

   Broadersave

   Narrowertallyclock inrecordaccessionpostring upmanifestinscribechroniclefile

   recording

Questions about put down

What does put down mean?

put down means "cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for put down?

Close synonyms include set down, place down, lay, repose, land. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put down a common word?

put down is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.