WRITTEN DOWN Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

written down

verb

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past participle of write down

as in reduced

to diminish the price or value of a company forced to write down its assets

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as in noted

to make a written note of write down what you remember about that day

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Recent Examples of written down Fewer than a third of those processes were written down anywhere. —

Omer Qureshi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Nothing can be written down, and no one can know everything, so much of the dialogue is a bewildering avalanche of codewords and code names. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 18 May 2026 Processes that had previously lived in people’s heads began to get written down. —

Shivaas Gulati, Sportico.com, 12 May 2026 The Odyssey is based on the ancient Greek epic poem known as Homer's Odyssey, which is widely understood to have been passed down from generation to generation via oral storytelling before it was written down in full. —

Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026 Making bsissa—a tradition passed down through generations—is an art, yet nothing is measured or written down. —

Boutheina Ben Salem, Vogue, 8 May 2026 The Tripitaka had been passed down orally in India for centuries after the death of the Buddha before being written down in Sri Lanka about the 1st century bce. —

Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026 Still, any word that's misheard or misunderstood will be written down incorrectly, so there’s no real way to find transcription errors after the fact. —

Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026 A lot of this stuff is not written down anywhere. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

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The Sagamore was reduced to ashes twice before its final form was constructed in the 1920s (hopefully the third time’s a charm).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
Similarly, following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the European Union created regulations that sharply reduced its dependence on natural gas in favor of renewable sources.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 June 2026