EGAVE

setdown

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of setting down something or someone.
    setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles
  2. noun The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  3. noun The humbling of a person by act or words.
  4. noun A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
  5. noun A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
  6. noun A person’s buttocks.

Similar words

set-down downsetting dismission dismount disestablishment lay-down putdown put down deestablishment unestablishment

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