English-German translations for put down

• ablegen
• abstellen
• ankotzen
• blättern
• einschläfern
• hinlegen
• hinsetzen
• hinstellen
• parkettieren
• unterdrücken
  Und zu guter Letzt hat die Opposition in Syrien praktisch keinen Handlungsspielraum und das Regime scheint bereit, alles Erdenkliche zu unternehmen, um die Proteste zu unterdrücken. Finally, in Syria, the opposition has virtually no room for manoeuvre and the regime seems prepared to go to any lengths to put down the protests.
• unterwerfen

Definition of put down

• To insult, belittle, or demean
• To pay
• To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force
• To euthanize (an animal
• To write (something
• To terminate a call; to hang up
• To add a name to a list
• To make prices, or taxes, lower
• To place a baby somewhere to sleep
• To land
• To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle
• To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book

Examples

• Why dont you put down your briefcase and stay awhile?
• They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
• We put down a $1,000 deposit.
• The government quickly put down the insurrection.
• Rex was in so much pain, they had to put him down.
• Put down the first thing you think of on this piece of paper.
• Dont put the phone down. I want a quick word with him, too.
• Ive put myself down for the new Spanish conversation course.
• BP are putting petrol and diesel down in what could be the start of a price war.
• I had just put Mary down when you rang. So now shes crying again.
• The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.
• The taxi put him down outside the hotel.
• I was unable to put down The Stand: it was that exciting.

Related words

• put down roots
• to put down (1)
• to put down
• put one's foot down
• put (one's) foot down
• put something or someone down
• put-down
• unputdownable