write down

Verb

write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, down.
   • I can't write down in the basement; it's cold there and my fingers cramp and get stiff.
2. (transitive) To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.

   Synonyms:

   write up, record, transcribe, document, log, inscripturate

3. (ambitransitive) To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
   • Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group
4. (transitive) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.

   Synonyms:

   devalue

   Antonyms:

   write up

5. (transitive) To condemn in writing; to document the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.
   • 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 been written down as a common swindler.1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800
   • See also: cite

   Synonyms:

   write up