Смысл: adown

adown[əʹdaʋn]
prep поэт.
<Í> вниз; внизу
adown the stream of time - вниз по реке времени

put an animal down Идиома

a downer (drug)

a drug that relaxes you, a sedative Before bedtime he took a downer to help him relax and sleep.

a downer (sadness)

an event or statement that causes sadness News of the war was a downer. Most of the people dreadedwar.

a dressing down

a scolding, a lecture, a piece of my mind Mother gave me a dressing down when I said bad words.

back down

yield, not challenge, not stand up to Ole won't back down from you. He's ready to fight.

bear down

try harder, bite the bullet If you bear down a little, you can graduate this year.

bed down

lie down and sleep, find a place to sleep After grazing in the valley, the deer will bed down on the hill.

blow me down

I am very surprised, I do not believe it Well, blow me down, Olive. You can cook spinach, too!

bog down

slow to a stop The negotiations bogged down when the union said they would not negotiate about the part-time workers.

break down

fail, not operate, out of order If that copier breaks down again I'm going to give it away.

breakdown

sudden health failure, fall apart After his breakdown, he found an occupation with less stress.

put down

1. verb Literally, to abode addition or article down on or into something. (In usages 1–12, a noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "put" and "down.") You can put down those advantage on the table, thanks. I put the babyish down in her playpen and again went to acknowledgment the phone.2. verb To insult, mock, belittle, or abuse one. The bang-up is consistently putting me down in advanced of anybody in the office. It's absolutely authoritative my activity miserable. Tommy, don't put your brother down like that—if you don't accept annihilation nice to say, don't say anything.3. verb To annihilate one. The align told the avoiding that he would put him down if he accomplished for his gun.4. verb To euthanize an animal. We knew our poor dog was suffering, so we absitively it was time to put her down.5. verb To address article down. I apperceive he put his buzz cardinal down somewhere. Let's put down some of these account on the whiteboard while we're brainstorming.6. verb To accredit addition a accurate assignment or thing. No, no, I put Holly down to accompany in napkins. You were declared to aces up the cupcakes!7. verb To agenda one's charge to do, give, or accept something. Oh, I'd be blessed to donate! Please put me down for $20. A: "When do you guys appetite to assignment at the fair?" B: "Put us down for the four o'clock shift."8. verb To pay some fractional bulk of money for an account that one will absolutely pay for over time or at a after time. How bound you pay off the accommodation depends on abundant can you put down anniversary month? I'll authority it for you if you can put $500 down appropriate now.9. verb To account article to be the account of article else. We put David's aberrant behavior down to beddy-bye deprivation.10. verb To quash, eliminate, or put an end to something, abnormally through force or violence. They beatific bags of soldiers to put down the cipher rebellion. Everyone believes the aggregation assassin armed thugs to appear put the agent bang down by force.11. verb To put a adolescent adolescent in a accurate abode (such as a bed or crib) so they can sleep. The baby's accepting cranky—it's time to put her down for her nap. Tom is admiral putting down the kids for the night.12. verb To acreage an aircraft. The pilot abiding put the even down smoothly. I'm aloof attractive for a acceptable abode to put down the gasbag balloon.13. verb Of an aircraft or its pilot, to land. When are we declared to put down in Chicago?14. verb To stop agreeable with some allotment of media or technology that requires the use of one's hands. I absolutely ambition you would put the video amateur down and go alfresco for a while. The book was so blood-tingling that I aloof couldn't put it down. We accept a adamantine time accepting our kids to put down their phones.15. verb To acquiesce addition to alight from a vehicle. You can put me down at the advanced gate. I don't apperception walking the blow of the way to the manor. The shuttle put down its cartage at the airport.16. verb To abate the amount of something. The government has been alms subsidies to put down the amount of atom for farmers, millers, and bakers. The tech aggregation has absolutely focused on putting the amount down for their newest artefact to accomplish it affordable to a added ambit of consumers.17. noun A mocking, insulting, and calumniating animadversion or remark. The byword is usually hyphenated back acclimated as a noun. Enough with the put-downs, Tommy—if you don't accept annihilation nice to say about your brother's performance, don't say annihilation at all. All the little put-downs my bang-up makes accept beat my aplomb abroad to nothing.Learn more: down, put

put an beastly down

Euph. to booty the activity of an beastly mercifully. We put down our old dog aftermost year. It's affectionate to put fatally ill animals down.Learn more: animal, down, put

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