wrote off

verb

past tense 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 wrote off Weeks after the anniversary, the FDA proposed a new pathway to speed these therapies to children with ultra-rare disease, a pathway that runs straight through the platform the secretary wrote off. — Jeff Coller, STAT, 6 Aug. 2026 Within three years, Carlyle wrote off the investment, and Beautycounter filed for bankruptcy. — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Furthermore, Oscar nominees Ruth de Jong and Ellen Mirojnick exceed expectations with their production design and costume design, respectively, which some initially wrote off as too brutalist and minimal in the film’s previews. — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 22 July 2026 Six politicians in black robes wrote off the voting rights of multitudes of Floridians in the latest case in just a half-page of text, refusing to take it away from the First District Court of Appeal and decide it promptly. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Consumers previously wrote off Chinese goods as inferior, as Chinese manufacturers prioritized quick market entry over original designs. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 9 June 2026 By 2021, with Holland out and nothing but a few teaser clips, Netflix pulled the plug on the series, then wrote off over $55 million in costs. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 May 2026 When the West Coast divested from coal, national headlines all but wrote off this town of 3,000 as dying. — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 2 May 2026 Later, criticism also came from arbiters of high modernism, such as Clement Greenberg, who wrote off New Deal art as kitsch for the masses. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrote off
  1. dismissed
  2. reduced
  3. minimized
  4. wrote down
  5. diminished
Verb
  • Gibson Dunn, an external law firm, investigated and dismissed Love’s complaints.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Advertisement Unfortunately, some of my academic and clinical colleagues have dismissed this approach.
    — David H. Rosmarin, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of dismissed
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  • Obviously, that’s a fair assumption if his ice time is meaningfully reduced, and the same goes for Draisaitl.
    — Janson Duench, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The development comes as the global shipping industry contends with attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, higher energy prices, and sharply reduced traffic through some of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of reduced
Verb
  • In this location, the telescope will rarely be blocked by Earth and infrared heat from the Earth, sun and moon is minimized.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
  • States alleged that Meta’s internal research documented links between Instagram use and harms including depression, anxiety and body-image concerns among young people, while the company publicly minimized or concealed those risks.
    — Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of minimized
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  • The Mariners essentially wrote down the rest of Ray’s five-year, $115 million contract while taking on the dead money owed to declining outfielder Mitch Haniger and injured right-hander Anthony DeSclafani.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Blanche said $130; Pearlman wrote down the correct figure, $85.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 July 2026
Definition of wrote down
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  • And the Ku Klux Klan, though diminished from its earlier power, had not disappeared.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The value of a geographic component in roster management has diminished.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of diminished

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“Wrote off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrote%20off. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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