verb
- Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place.
- usage: "set down your bags here"
- synonyms: set down, place down
- Put in a horizontal position.
- usage: "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
- Cause to come to the ground.
- usage: "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
- synonyms: land, bring down
- Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.
- usage: "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
- Leave or unload.
- usage: "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel"
- Put (an animal) to death.
- usage: "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
- synonyms: destroy
- Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc..
- synonyms: write down, set down, get down
- Make a record of; set down in permanent form.
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