# put down

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To insult, belittle, or demean.
2. Of money as deposit, to pay.
3. To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
4. To euthanize (an animal).
5. To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
6. To write (something).
7. To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
8. To add a name to a list.
9. To make prices, or taxes, lower.
10. To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
11. To give something as a reason for something else.
12. Of an aircraft, to land.
13. To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
14. To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
15. To drink.
16. To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
17. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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