mark down
verb1
To reduce the price of.
2
To write a memorandum about.
3
To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
- The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
4
To write down.
5
To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
- They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9: