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Definition of "put down to" []

  • To state the cause of a situation. (verb)

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Use "put down to" in a sentence
  • "He telephoned the Police Judiciaire, but nothing had happened that could be put down to Alain Lagrange."
  • "Bathwick had a good voice, but there was a tremor in it which I put down to his suppressed anxiety to listen to the conversation at our end of the table."
  • "Kaskia was rather less informative, which he put down to her continuing difficulties with the language and her consequently understandable reticence."