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See also:writedownandwrite-down

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Verb

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writedown (third-person singular simple presentwrites down,present participlewriting down,simple pastwrote down,past participlewritten down)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seewrite,‎down.
    I can'twrite down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
  2. (transitive) Toproduce or set (something) down inwriting; torecord something.
    Synonyms:write up,record,transcribe,document,log,inscripturate
  3. (ambitransitive) To write (something) in asimple orcondescendingstyle.
    Coordinate terms:dumb down,talk down,talk down to
    • 2011, Ada Leverson,Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group‎[1]:
      Good heavens, I can'twrite down to the level of the vulgar public!
  4. (transitive, accounting) To make adownwardadjustment in the value of anasset.
    Synonym:devalue
    Antonym:write up
  5. (transitive) Tocondemn in writing; todocument thefaults,offenses, orwrongdoing of.
    • 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, inRailway Magazine, page800:
      By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled "Facts, Failures and Frauds"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has beenwritten down as a common swindler.
    Synonym:write up
    See also:cite

Usage notes

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  • As with many pairs of phrasal verbs that contain antonymicparticles (such asup anddown),write down andwrite up can nonetheless function as synonyms for some senses.

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Translations

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to set something down in writing
to make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset

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