PLACE DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does place down mean? 

• PLACE DOWN (verb)
  The verb PLACE DOWN has 1 sense:

1. cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place

  Familiarity information: PLACE DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACE DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

place down; put down; set down

Context example:

set down your bags here

Hypernyms (to "place down" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "place down"):

flump; plank; plonk; plop; plump; plump down; plunk; plunk down (set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something