Usually means: Cease, end life humanely, euthanize.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word put down:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. put-down, put down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. put-down, put down, put down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put-down, put-down, put down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. put-down, put down: Vocabulary.com
  5. put-down: Wordnik
  6. put-down, put (sth) down (somewhere): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. put-down, put down: Wiktionary
  8. put-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. put-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. put-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. put-down, put down: Dictionary.com
  12. put-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. put-down, put down: Rhymezone
  14. put-down, put down: Free Dictionary
  15. put-down, put down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. put-down, put down: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put down: Legal dictionary
  2. put down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put-down, put down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put down: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. put down, put down, put down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. put down: Urban Dictionary
  3. Put down: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (put down)

verb:  (idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
verb:  (of money as deposit) To pay.
verb:  To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
verb:  (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
verb:  (euphemistic) To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
verb:  To write (something).
verb:  To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
verb:  To add a name to a list.
verb:  (UK, Ireland) To make prices, or taxes, lower.
verb:  (idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
verb:  (idiomatic) To give something as a reason for something else.
verb:  (aviation, idiomatic, of an aircraft) To land.
verb:  (idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
verb:  (idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
verb:  (slang, US) To drink.
verb:  (obsolete, printing) To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
noun:  Alternative spelling of put-down [An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.]

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