put sb down
— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
(INSULT)
informal to make someone feel silly or not important by criticizing them:
Why did you have to put me down in front of everybody like that?
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Insults & abuse
- arse-licker
- asshole
- be close to the bone idiom
- brickbat
- cut (sb) to the quick idiom
- denigrate
- fuck
- fuck you/them/it idiom
- give someone a mouthful idiom
- mouth
- mouthful
- name-calling
- score
- shit
- sledging
- snowflake
- stick
- take sb's name in vain idiom
- trifle
- trifle with sb/sth
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Disapproving & criticizing
(LAY DOWN)
to place and make a baby comfortable in the place where it sleeps:
I'd just put Jack down for his nap.
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Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sb/sth between sb/sth
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- set sth down
- shelve
- shove
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping