set down

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set down

verb sets down · setting down · set down

idiomatic, transitive To write. I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
transitive To fix; to establish; to ordain. This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
UK, especially, transitive To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight. They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
Similar: drop off
ambitransitive To land. The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
obsolete, transitive To humiliate. “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———”
transitive To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as. I set him down as an idiot.

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verb to place on a surface

Español	posar
Português	pousar
Français	déposer
Deutsch	hinsetzen, hinlegen, ablegen, absetzen
Italiano	deporre, posare

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@misc{set_down_2026,
  title = {set down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/set%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}