[Sửa]Pen, scribble, get off, dash off; indite, inscribe, makeout: I was writing you a note when you phoned. She wrote out acheque for œ1000. 2 correspond (with), send a letter or a noteor a postcard or US also a postal card, communicate (with): Youdon't write home often enough. Write and let me know when youget a job. 3 compose, create, make up, author: We saw the housein which Elgar wrote the 'Enigma' Variations.
[Sửa]Write down. aregister, list, catalogue, note, make a note or notation,record, transcribe, set or jot or take down, note, put inwriting, put in black and white: The teacher was known forIrish bulls like, 'All absent students must write down theirnames'. b derogate, decry, disparage, put down, minimize, makelittle of, play down, detract, belittle: Cumberland'scontributions have been written down by his critics.
[Sửa]Writeoff. delete, cancel, disregard, ignore, forgive, forget (about),annul, eradicate, erase: The bad debts have been written off.
[Sửa]Reduce the nominal valueof (stock, goods, etc.). write in 1 send a suggestion, query,etc., in writing to an organization, esp. a broadcastingstation.
[Sửa]US add (an extra name) on a list of candidates whenvoting. write-in n. US an instance of writing in (see write in2). write off 1 write and send a letter.
[Sửa]Cancel the recordof (a bad debt etc.); acknowledge the loss of or failure torecover (an asset).
[Sửa]Damage (a vehicle etc.) so badly that itcannot be repaired.
[Sửa]Compose with facility. write-off n. athing written off, esp. a vehicle too badly damaged to berepaired. write out 1 write in full or in finished form.
[Sửa]Exhaust (oneself) by writing (have written myself out). writeup 1 write a full account of.