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Down

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Definitions for Down

noun
soft fine feathers
Synonyms
down feather
noun
(American football) a complete play to advance the football
Examples
  1. you have four downs to gain ten yards
noun
English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
Synonyms
John L. H. Down
noun
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
noun
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
Synonyms
pile
verb
drink down entirely
Synonyms
toss off pop bolt down belt down pour down drink down kill
Examples
  1. He downed three martinis before dinner
  2. She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  3. They popped a few beer after work
verb
eat up completely, as with great appetite
Synonyms
devour demolish consume go through
Examples
  1. Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
  2. The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them
verb
bring down or defeat (an opponent)
verb
shoot at and force to come down
Synonyms
shoot down land
Examples
  1. the enemy landed several of our aircraft
verb
cause to come or go down
Synonyms
knock down cut down push down pull down
Examples
  1. The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  2. The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
verb
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
Synonyms
polish refine fine-tune
Examples
  1. refine one's style of writing
adjective
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
Examples
  1. lay face down
  2. the moon is down
  3. our team is down by a run
  4. down by a pawn
  5. the stock market is down today
adjective
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
Synonyms
down(a) downward(a)
Examples
  1. the down staircase
  2. the downward course of the stream
adjective
becoming progressively lower
Synonyms
down(a)
Examples
  1. the down trend in the real estate market
adjective
being put out by a strikeout
Synonyms
down(p)
Examples
  1. two down in the bottom of the ninth
adjective
understood perfectly
Synonyms
down pat(p) mastered
Examples
  1. had his algebra problems down
adjective
lower than previously
Synonyms
depressed down(p)
Examples
  1. the market is depressed
  2. prices are down
adjective
shut
Examples
  1. the shades were down
adjective
not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
Examples
  1. we can't work because the computer is down
adjective
filled with melancholy and despondency
Synonyms
gloomy grim blue depressed dispirited down(p) downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited
Examples
  1. gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
  2. gloomy predictions
  3. a gloomy silence
  4. took a grim view of the economy
  5. the darkening mood
  6. lonely and blue in a strange city
  7. depressed by the loss of his job
  8. a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
  9. downcast after his defeat
  10. feeling discouraged and downhearted
adverb
spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
Synonyms
downwards downward downwardly
Examples
  1. don't fall down
  2. rode the lift up and skied down
  3. prices plunged downward
adverb
away from a more central or a more northerly place
Examples
  1. was sent down to work at the regional office
  2. worked down on the farm
  3. came down for the wedding
  4. flew down to Florida
adverb
paid in cash at time of purchase
Examples
  1. put ten dollars down on the necklace
adverb
from an earlier time
Examples
  1. the story was passed down from father to son
adverb
to a lower intensity
Examples
  1. he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
adverb
in an inactive or inoperative state
Examples
  1. the factory went down during the strike
  2. the computer went down again

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