marking down

Verb

mark down (third-person singular simple present marks down, present participle marking down, simple past and past participle marked down)

1. (transitive) To reduce the price of.
2. (transitive) To write a memorandum about.
3. (transitive) To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
   • The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
4. (transitive) To write down.
5. (transitive) To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
   • They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9