Synonyms for put-down
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Demean — to halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force
demean, destroy, mortify, degrade, humiliate, shame, disgrace, do for, repress, humble, put to shame, kill, crush, end, extinguish, stop, quash, slay, suppress, quell, conquer, vanquish
2. Lob — of an aircraft, to land
lob, set down, take down, drop, record, place, get down, touch down, bring down, snuff out, lay down, lay, land, enter, unload, deposit, discharge, enroll US, enrol UK
4. Put to sleep — to euthanize (an animal)
Noun
2. Insult
insult, disparagement, offense US, offence UK
Definitions
- v. 1
To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
The government quickly put down the insurrection.
- v. 2
To euthanize (an animal).
Rex was in so much pain, they had to put him down.
- v. 3
To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- n. 1
An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.
When he called you a know-it-all, he meant it as a put-down.
Related words
- Other spellings
- put down putdown
Forms
- Plural
- put-downs → squelches, takedowns, squelchers, insults…
Example sentences
- stop Stop beating around the bush and get to the point.
- humiliate Yuri didn't want Martha to humiliate him again.
- demean I didn't mean to demean you.
- snub The little boy has a snub nose.
By length
- 3 letters
- end1, lay1, lob1
- 4 letters
- down1, take1, stop1, land1, kill1, born1, drop1, slay1, snub1
- 5 letters
- place1, enter2, shame1, crush1, quell1, quash1, enrol
- 6 letters
- record2, humble2, insult2, enroll2, unload2, repose2, demean2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, offense2, deposit3, execute3, offence, catalog3, conquer2, degrade2, repress2, squelch1, mortify3
- 8 letters
- register3, disgrace2, suppress2, takedown, vanquish2, tabulate3, enscroll
- 9 letters
- discharge2, catalogue3, humiliate4, euthanize3, euthanase, squelcher
- 10 letters
- extinguish3
- 13 letters
- disparagement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (enter2 = 2 syllables).