set down

See also: setdown

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

set down (third-person singular simple present sets down, present participle setting down, simple past and past participle set down)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To write.

   I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.

   • Clarendon

     Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.

2. (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
   • Hooker

     This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.

3. (transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.

Synonyms

• (deposit): drop off

Translations

to place on a surface

• French: déposer (fr)
• German: hinsetzen (de), hinlegen (de), ablegen (de), absetzen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κατατίθημι (katatíthēmi)

• Haitian Creole: depoze
• Irish: scaoil anuas
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• Italian: deporre (it), posare (it)
• Portuguese: pousar (pt)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sajźaś impf, sajźiś pf

• Spanish: posar (es)

Anagrams

• down-set, downest, downset