written off

verb

past participle of write off
1
as in dismissed
to express scornfully one's low opinion of most critics have already written off that director as a hack incapable of turning out anything but schlock

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2
as in reduced
to diminish the price or value of that one blunder will write off to nothing all the goodwill we've been building up

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Recent Examples of written off In many industries, the cost of not having location insights can be measured in liability, failed service level agreements, and capital written off. — Marianna Kantor, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Some argued the songs are real, but were written off as AI to minimize interest. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2026 About $3,000 in transportation costs for passenger vans and drivers had to be written off as well. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Speaking of decisions above you, Scott Patterson left the series after Season 3 and his character Sully (Maggie's dad) was written off the show. — Joelle Goldstein, USA Today, 2 July 2026 EBay is quietly rebuilding a growth story that many investors had already written off. — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 1 July 2026 The documentary is about how the young Brady was written off by so many, and about those six quarterbacks who were drafted ahead of him. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 23 June 2026 If not, the remaining balance is generally written off. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 23 June 2026 Audiences and analysts had almost certainly written off Cameroon before the game. — Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for written off
  1. dismissed
  2. reduced
  3. run down
  4. written down
  5. played down
  6. sunk
  7. talked down
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  • Scott first attended Arizona State on a partial golf scholarship, but was dismissed from the team after an incident with a visiting recruit.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026
  • In our most recent conversation, Gershman dismissed the account Sebold gave in her memoir and downplayed the parts of her testimony that were more ambiguous.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 17 July 2026
Definition of dismissed
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  • Graphics will reportedly be reduced, all of which could affect the quality of broadcasts.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • After a two-month trial, Bowman instructed jurors to deliberate on second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter charges — reduced from first-degree murder charges by prosecutors last week.
    — Reeti Malhotra July 21, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of reduced
Verb
  • On the one hand, circulating the ball can slowly run down the opponents’ batteries as they are starved of possession for long periods, pinned further back towards their own goal with legs becoming heavier and minds cloudier.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • After Hurtado-Cariaco runs down the block, the agents get back into their vehicles.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of run down
Verb
  • That’s enough to call it preexisting, whether or not it was written down anywhere.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • No records from her lifetime mention the event—and this seems like the sort of thing someone might have written down.
    — Michele MetychAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Definition of written down
Verb
  • In Moscow, the Kremlin played down the importance of Fedorov's dismissal — despite his role in shaping Ukraine's attack drone program against the Russian interior.
    — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 16 July 2026
  • Comcast executives on the analyst call played down the notion that the two companies were being positioned for another deal.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Definition of played down
Verb
  • Rather than being riled into playing at a higher level, Spain sunk into self-pity mode.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Collins’s untroubled support for Clayton reveals how far below this simple baseline her entire party has sunk.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Definition of sunk
Verb
  • The contractors talked down to me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • Others described feeling they were being talked down to.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
Definition of talked down

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