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单词 put down
释义 put down
I. verb
Etymology: Middle English putten doun, from putten to put + doun down
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to do away with : abolish, destroy
  < indicted on charges of failure to put down gambling — Meyer Berger >
  < assist in putting down the pestilences — Current History >
 b. : to bring to an end by force (as an outbreak against authority) : suppress, crush
  < stern military measures put down the rioting — Jean & Franc Shor >
 c. Britain : to give up : discontinue using
2. : degrade, depose
 < has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree — Lk 1:52 (Revised Standard Version) >
3. : to make ineffective : check, snub
 < put down gossip that she will again be a mama by labeling it the truth — Time >
4. : to do away with (as an injured, sick, or aged animal) : put to death : destroy, kill
 < with the veterinary means … at our disposal, I would always decide to have a sufferer from this disease put down — Henry Wynmalen >
5.
 a. : to write down : put in writing
  < was careful to put down only what he knew from first-hand experience — Granville Hicks >
 b. : to enter in a list
  < one of the largest subscribers, putting his name down initially for £1,000 — W.P.Webb >
  < putting down the industrialist's son at birth for Eton — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude >
6.
 a. : to place in a specified category
  < I put him down as a hypochondriac — O.S.J.Gogarty >
  < I'd have put her down as being just on the far side of forty-five — Hamilton Basso >
 b. : attribute
  < prepared to put these “shortcomings” down to inexperience — C.H.Dewhurst >
7. : to make by digging or drilling (as a well or pit) : sink
 < began putting down experimental bores — Margaret Clarke >
8. : to cause (a fish) to swim near the bottom (as from alarm)
 < the noisy activity quickly put down the fish — F.C.Craighead b.1916 & J.J.Craighead >
9.
 a. : groom
  < much practice will be needed to put your dog down properly — Winnie Barber >
 b. : to eliminate (a show animal) from consideration in a competition
  < even the ideal cat may be put down if it is not shown in perfect condition — P.M.Soderberg >
10. : to take in as food or drink
 < poured a stiff jolt of whiskey and put it down — Raymond Chandler >
 < was now putting down helping after helping of the dinner — Carson McCullers >
11. : to pack or preserve for future use (as meats in brine, eggs in waterglass)
 < put down a whole cask of pickles >
12. cricket : to break (a wicket) with a fielded ball
intransitive verb
of an airplane or airplane pilot : land
 < put down at the airport on time >
 < despite the rain, he put down in a perfect landing >
II. transitive verb
1.
 a. : belittle : disparage
  < many writers want to put down not only their interviews but their critics — Melvin Maddocks >
 b. : disapprove : criticize
  < put down for the way he dressed >
2. : deflate : squelch
 < a legendary step-parent: rigid, oppressive, untrue, ever ready to put down the honest feeling and sound thought that arise within the individual — R.B.Heilman >
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