write down

• write-down, writedown

write down (third-person singular simple present writes down, present participle writing down, simple past wrote down, past participle written down)

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see write,‎ down.
   • 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group:

     Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!

2. (transitive) To set (something) down in writing; to record something.
3. (transitive) To write (something) in a simple or condescending style.
4. (transitive, accounting) To make a downward adjustment in the value of an asset.
5. (transitive) To condemn in writing.

• (sense 3) to talk down, to talk down to, to dumb down