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Noun
- Synonyms: (n) down, down feather (soft fine feathers)
- Synonyms: (n) down ((American football) a complete play to advance the football) “you have four downs to gain ten yards”
- Synonyms: (n) Down, John L. H. Down (English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896))
- Synonyms: (n) down ((usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil)
- Synonyms: (n) down, pile (fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs))
Verb
- Synonyms: (v) toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill (drink down entirely) “He downed three martinis before dinner”; “She killed a bottle of brandy that night”; “They popped a few beer after work”
- Synonyms: (v) devour, demolish, down, consume, go through (eat up completely, as with great appetite) “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”; “The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them”
- Synonyms: (v) down (bring down or defeat (an opponent))
- Synonyms: (v) down, shoot down, land (shoot at and force to come down) “the enemy landed several of our aircraft”
- Synonyms: (v) down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down (cause to come or go down) “The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect”; “The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet”
- Synonyms: (v) polish, refine, fine-tune, down (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing) “refine one’s style of writing”
Adjective
- Synonyms: (adj) down (being or moving lower in position or less in some value) “lay face down”; “the moon is down”; “our team is down by a run”; “down by a pawn”; “the stock market is down today”
- Synonyms: (adj) down, downward (extending or moving from a higher to a lower place) “the down staircase”; “the downward course of the stream”
- Synonyms: (adj) down (becoming progressively lower) “the down trend in the real estate market”
- Synonyms: (adj) down (being put out by a strikeout) “two down in the bottom of the ninth”
- Synonyms: (adj) down, down pat, mastered (understood perfectly) “had his algebra problems down”
- Synonyms: (adj) depressed, down (lower than previously) “the market is depressed”; “prices are down”
- Synonyms: (adj) down (shut) “the shades were down”
- Synonyms: (adj) down (not functioning (temporarily or permanently)) “we can’t work because the computer is down”
- Synonyms: (adj) gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited (filled with melancholy and despondency) “gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”; “gloomy predictions”; “a gloomy silence”; “took a grim view of the economy”; “the darkening mood”; “lonely and blue in a strange city”; “depressed by the loss of his job”; “a dispirited and resigned expression on her face”; “downcast after his defeat”; “feeling discouraged and downhearted”
Adverb
- Synonyms: (adv) down, downwards, downward, downwardly (spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position) “don’t fall down”; “rode the lift up and skied down”; “prices plunged downward”
- Synonyms: (adv) down (away from a more central or a more northerly place) “was sent down to work at the regional office”; “worked down on the farm”; “came down for the wedding”; “flew down to Florida”
- Synonyms: (adv) down (paid in cash at time of purchase) “put ten dollars down on the necklace”
- Synonyms: (adv) down (from an earlier time) “the story was passed down from father to son”
- Synonyms: (adv) down (to a lower intensity) “he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black”
- Synonyms: (adv) down (in an inactive or inoperative state) “the factory went down during the strike”; “the computer went down again”
Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2024.
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