Put down - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 02/09/2026

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Put down.

5 letter answer(s) to put down

ABASE
  1. belittles
  2. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
  3. undermine
DECRY
  1. express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
ENTER
  1. be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"
  2. become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"
  3. come on stage
  4. make a record of; set down in permanent form
  5. put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"
  6. register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members"
  7. set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career"
  8. take on duties or office; "accede to the throne"
  9. to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"
QUASH
  1. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  2. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
QUELL
  1. overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
  2. suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"

6 letter answer(s) to put down

ABASED
  1. belittles
  2. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
  3. undermine
DEMEAN
  1. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
DERIDE
  1. treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
PENNED
  1. produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

7 letter answer(s) to put down

AFFRONT
  1. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
  2. treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"
ASPERSE
  1. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
DEGRADE
  1. lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
  2. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
  3. reduce the level of land, as by erosion
DERIDED
  1. treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
ENTERED
  1. be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"
  2. become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"
  3. come on stage
  4. make a record of; set down in permanent form
  5. put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text"
  6. register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members"
  7. set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career"
  8. take on duties or office; "accede to the throne"
  9. to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"
QUELLED
  1. overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
  2. subdued or overcome; "the quelled rebellion"; "an uprising quenched almost before it started"; "a squelched rumor"
  3. suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
REPRESS
  1. block the action of
  2. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
  3. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
  4. put out of one's consciousness
SLANDER
  1. an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
  2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
  3. tell lies about someone
  4. words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another

4 letter answer(s) to put down

ALIT
  1. A past tense and a past participle of alight.
LAID
  1. impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"
  2. lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
  3. prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
  4. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
  5. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  6. set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid table with places set for four people"; "stones laid in a pattern"
NOTE
  1. a brief written record; "he made a note of the appointment"
  2. a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"
  3. a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
  4. a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound;
  5. a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
  6. a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time; "I had to co-sign his note at the bank"
  7. a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
  8. a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling; "there was a note of uncertainty in his voice"
  9. high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"
  10. make a written note of; "
SNUB
  1. a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
  2. an instance of driving away or warding off
  3. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
  4. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
  5. unusually short; "a snub nose"

3 letter answer(s) to put down

ATE
  1. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
  2. eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
  3. goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  4. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
  5. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
  6. use up (resources or materials);
  7. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
LAY
  2. a narrative poem of popular origin
  3. a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
  4. be and remain in a particular state or condition
  5. be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
  6. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position;
  7. characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"
  8. have a place in relation to something else;
  9. impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"
  10. lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
  11. not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"
  12. originate (in);
  13. prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
  14. put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
  15. put into a certain place or abstract loc
SET
  1. (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite"
  2. (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way; "the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution"; "his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set"
  3. (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time"
  4. a badger's burrow
  5. a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth"
  6. a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious"
  7. a unit of play in tennis or squash; "they played two sets of tennis after dinner"
  8. adapt for performance in a different way; "set this

8 letter answer(s) to put down

BADMOUTH
  1. speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere"

9 letter answer(s) to put down

DENIGRATE
  1. cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence"
  2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

10 letter answer(s) to put down

DISPARAGED
  1. Cast aspersions, run someone's character down
  2. express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts"
  3. slight
  4. to put down

Frequently asked questions about ‘Put down’

What's the best solution for Put down?

The most likely answer for the crossword clue Put down is ATE. Other possible answers include ABASE, ABASED, AFFRONT, ALIT, ASPERSE, BADMOUTH, DECRY, DEGRADE, DEMEAN, DENIGRATE, DERIDE, DERIDED, DISPARAGED, ENTER, ENTERED, LAID, LAY, NOTE, PENNED, QUASH, QUELL, QUELLED, REPRESS, SET, SLANDER, SNUB.

How many solutions are there for Put down?

We have found 27 possible answers for the crossword clue Put down.

Which crosswords feature clues like Put down?

Clues like Put down often appear in daily crosswords from publications such as The Times Specialist, Sunday People, Daily Mail Mailword, The Times Quick Cryptic, Financial Times Polymath, among others.

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