Set down

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To write. idiomatic, transitive

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

  2. 2
    put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place wordnet
  2. 7
    To land. ambitransitive

    "The bush pilot set down on a sandbar."

  3. 8
    put or settle into a position wordnet
  4. 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———”"

  5. 10
    go ashore wordnet
  6. 11
    To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as. transitive

    "I set him down as an idiot."

  7. 12
    reach or come to rest wordnet

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