put sth down
— Phrasal Verb with put /pʊt/ verb [T] (present participle putting, past tense and past participle put)Definition
STOP HOLDING › to put something that you are holding onto the floor or onto another surface: I'll just put my bag down for a minute, it's rather heavy.
TELEPHONE UK › If you put the phone down, you put the part of the telephone that you speak into back to its usual position.
ANIMAL › to kill an animal, usually because it is suffering
(Definition of put sth down from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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