WRITE DOWN Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

write down

verb

Definition of write down

as in to reduce

to diminish the price or value of a company forced to write down its assets

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as in to record

to make a written note of write down what you remember about that day

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Recent Examples of write down Recently, Hobert wrote down one of her goals 40 times in a notebook. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Brian had written down the recipe, and, in his back shed, Michael, with the eventual assistance of Kasey, sets about following it into strange and disturbing territory. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 Shares of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, whose janitors clean 2 billion square feet of commercial property every day, have been written down to nothing. — Ellen Dimauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Other inventive scenes include Duong’s father reading from his memoir in Vietnamese, as his relatives do not speak or read English, and so will not have heard his story as written down. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for write down

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Integrating the interceptor into existing launch infrastructure could reduce the need for extensive equipment changes.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
People can donate clean costumes and pick a new one, reducing waste and the resources and emissions required to make new ones.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduce

Verb

Research partners recorded the various sounds that drones make when their propellers get chipped or cracked or their motor becomes damaged or begins to fail.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
The practice involves writing down your intrusive thoughts and fears, and even recording yourself talking about them, and playing that recording back to yourself.

— Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of record

Verb

If a physician has to log into another platform or manually reconcile another stream of data, RPM becomes one more burden rather than a source of clarity.

— Ayush Jain, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
In three appearances for the Texans in 2026, Fisher logged 38 special-teams snaps but did not appear on defense.

— Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of log

Verb

By that point — more than a decade after my symptoms began — other diseases that mimic MS had been ruled out, but only because I was forced to inquire about them after doctors had wrongly written off MS early in my diagnostic search.

— Lindsay Karp, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026
However, a generation that a government minister wrote off as lazy and expendable has exposed the cracks in the system that the chief justice defended.

— Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of write off

Verb

Investigators were seen collecting shell casings and bullet fragments from the scene, and numerous evidence markers were set down.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Earlier, Rafael Jodar won after being a set down for third straight match and also reached the quarterfinals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of set down

Verb

The estate sent Parillo a cease-and-desist letter demanding the accounts be taken down.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026
Chmerkovskiy quickly took down the offending TikTok, but not before fan screenshots proliferated and Inaba got wind of it.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

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