write down
See also: writedown and write-down
English
Alternative forms
- write-down, writedown
Verb
write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, down.
- I can't write down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
- (transitive) To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
- Synonyms: write up, record, transcribe, document, log, inscripturate
- (transitive, intransitive) To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
- 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group:
- Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!
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- (transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
- Synonym: devalue
- Antonym: write up
- (transitive) To condemn in writing; to document the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
- Synonym: write up
- See also: cite
Usage notes
- As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymic particles (such as up and down), write down and write up can actually function as synonyms for some senses.
Translations
to set something down in writing
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to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset
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See also
- (sense 3) to talk down, to talk down to, to dumb down
Anagrams
- Winterowd