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putting downverbpresent participle of put down to express scornfully one's low opinion ofhe has the annoying habit of putting down others under the guise of offering constructive criticism bad-mouthing, belittling, crying down, decrying, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, derogating, diminishing, discounting, dismissing, disparaging, dissing(slang), kissing off, minimizing, playing down, poor-mouthing, running down, talking down, trashing, trash-talking, vilipending, writing off discommendingabusing, scoldingdisapproving (of), dislikingcensuring, condemning, criticizing, denouncing, reprehending, reprobatingaspersing, defaming, maligning, ripping, slandering, slurring, traducing, vilifyingdiscrediting, disgracing dumping on acclaiming, applauding, exalting, extolling, glorifying, lauding, magnifying, praising approving, countenancing, endorsing(also indorsing), favoring, recommending, sanctioningcommending, complimenting, eulogizing to make a written note ofwe had the whole agreement put down on paper jotting (down), logging, marking, noting, recording, registering, reporting, setting down, taking down, writing down chronicling, minuting, transcribingenregistering, entering, inscribingchalking (up), notching, scoring to put (someone or something) on a listput her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip cataloging(or cataloguing), enrolling, entering, indexing, inscribing, listing, recording, registering, scheduling, slating booking, carding, filing, notingclassifying, compiling, tabulating, tallyingrescheduling deleting to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcea tyrant who ruthlessly put down uprisings clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, slapping down, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, subduing, suppressing dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenchingsmothering, stifling, strangling, throttlingannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, rubbing out, ruining, smashing, wasting, wreckingexterminating, obliterating, wiping outconquering, dominating, overcoming, overpowering, overwhelming, subduing, subjugating, vanquishing sitting on abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, helping, propping up, supportingfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring, whipping (up)advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting to explain (something) as being the result of something elsea fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience accrediting, ascribing, attributing, chalking up, crediting, imputing, laying blaming, charging, fathering (on), imputing (to), pinning (on)assigning, referringassociating, attaching, connecting, linking to take in as foodthe husky youngster seemed to put down her own weight in food at one sitting consuming, eating, ingesting, partaking (of), putting away, tucking (away or in) digesting, downing, mouthing (down), swallowingbolting, chowing (down on), devouring, glutting (on), gobbling (up or down), gorging, gulping, scoffing, slopping, snarfing (down), swilling, wolfingchewing, gnawing (at or on), gumming, lapping, licking, nibbling (on), nursing, picking (at)relishing, savoring(also savouring), tastingbanqueting, dining, faring, feasting, gormandizing, pigging out, regalingdispatching, polishing offbreakfasting, lunching, suppingmunching, noshing, snacking |