putsomethingdown tosomething
phrasal verbwithputverbuk/pʊt/us/pʊt/present participleputting|past tense and past participleput
tothinkthat aproblemorsituationiscausedby aparticularthing:
I put the children'sbadbehaviourdown to thefactthat they weretired.
- I'd always put hislackofconfidencedown to hisstrangeupbringing.
- She didseemratherunhappy, but I just put it down to thepressureshe was under atwork.
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deducible
- deductive
- diagnosis
- draw
- drawn
- imputesomethingtosomeone
- in the last/final analysisidiom
- inconclusively
- inductive
- inductively
- must
- non-deductive
- put
- put two and two together and make fiveidiom
- put two and two togetheridiom
- reason
- syllogism
- syllogistic