putting down
Setting something here
Putting down covers several distinct actions.
To put something down is to set it on a surface or release it from your hands.
Putting down a deposit means paying an initial amount.
Putting down an animal means euthanizing it: We had to put the dog down.
Putting someone down is insulting or belittling them: She's always putting him down in front of others.
To put down a rebellion is to suppress it by force.
- belittlingExpressing contempt or dismissiveness
- euthanasiaDeliberate death for relief
- old dogOne resistant to change
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
- mockingScornfully imitating or ridiculing
verbal abuse · quashing · humiliating · deriding · dissing · scorning · criticizing · badmouthing · degrading · suppressing · stifling · subduing · silencing · insulting · quelling · lowering · extinguishing · discarding
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- criticismcriticism, critique, review, feedback, opinion
- eliminatingeliminating, eradicating, wiping out, exterminating, abolishing
putting downpraising
Voicing admiration
building up · complimenting · affirming · encouraging · exalting
putting downpicking up
Grasping and lifting
raising · hoisting · elevating · holding up · grabbing
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