Put down
Put down verb - To express scornfully one's low opinion of.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
- Other times you try and put down an animal in the aforementioned Gardens and end up in a help menu because you were next to one of the TVs.
Source: Context-Sensitive Button -
While he does march north to try and put down the rebellion, he's defeated and as you see once you rescue him, is put in a tiny cage, screaming insults at his very rescuers.
Source: Video Game / Ryse: Son of Rome - You want this war to drag on as long as humanly-... elvenly possible so the empire pours resources to try and put down the rebellion.
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