mark down

verb

1. 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.”