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put down
verb- to belittle someone; to treat someone with humiliating contempt US, 1958
- Put-down, or ranked-out, or second-class citizen treatment as described above is what causes the daughter to say of her parents, “They don’t understand.” — Murray Kaufman, Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby, p. 34, 1966
- rarely consulting him on matters of foreign policy, and putting him down firmly whenever he came up with any ideas of his own — Peter Hopkirk, Like Hidden Fire, p. 16, 1994
- to euthanise an animal UK, 1899
- When Mavis found out her dog had been put down in place of Buddy, she called the Belle Glade sheriff’s station. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 157, 1991
- to implicate someone as guilty US
- I didn’t know if he wanted to put me down or what! I was scared to go down there. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 115, 1965
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