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Set down
verb
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Verb
- 1 To write. idiomatic, transitive
"I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience."
- 2 put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. wordnet
- 3 To fix; to establish; to ordain. transitive
"This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by."
- 4 remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave wordnet
- 5 To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight. British, especially, transitive
"They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand."
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- 6 cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place wordnet
- 7 To land. ambitransitive
"The bush pilot set down on a sandbar."
- 8 put or settle into a position wordnet
- 9 To humiliate. obsolete, transitive
"“I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———”"
- 10 go ashore wordnet
- 11 To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as. transitive
"I set him down as an idiot."
- 12 reach or come to rest wordnet
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