put sth/sb down
— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
(STOP HOLDING)
B1 to put an object that you are holding onto the floor or onto another surface, or to stop carrying someone:
I put my bags down while we spoke.
Put me down, Daddy!
More examples
- Put the gun down!
- They put down their tools and walked out.
- I put the shopping down on the table.
- You can put your cases down in the corner.
- She put down the letter with a sigh.
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Falling and dropping
- ass
- ass over teakettle idiom
- collapse
- collapse/fall in a heap idiom
- cropper
- crumple
- drop
- drop like flies idiom
- drop sb/sth off
- fly
- hit the deck idiom
- let go idiom
- nosedive
- overbalance
- parachutist
- plunge
- pratfall
- shower
- thump
- wayside
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Placing and positioning an object
(NAME)
B2 to write someone's name on a list or document, usually in order to include that person in an event or activity:
Do you want me to put you down for the trip to London?
I've put myself down for the office football team.
If you want to get your children into that school, you have to put their names down at birth.
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Writing & typing
- borrow
- chalk
- chronicle
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- run sth off
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write
- write sth up
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