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down

English

  1. 🔊 not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
    “we can't work because the computer is down”
  2. 🔊 shut
    “the shades were down”
  3. 🔊 understood perfectly
    “had his algebra problems down”
  4. 🔊 being or moving lower in position or less in some value
    “lay face down”
  5. 🔊 (American football) a complete play to advance the football
    “you have four downs to gain ten yards”
  6. 🔊 soft fine feathers
  7. 🔊 fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
  8. 🔊 (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
  9. 🔊 English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
  10. 🔊 spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
    “don't fall down”
  11. 🔊 away from a more central or a more northerly place
    “was sent down to work at the regional office”
  12. 🔊 paid in cash at time of purchase
    “put ten dollars down on the necklace”
  13. 🔊 in an inactive or inoperative state
    “the factory went down during the strike”
  14. 🔊 to a lower intensity
    “he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black”
  15. 🔊 from an earlier time
    “the story was passed down from father to son”
  16. 🔊 bring down or defeat (an opponent)
  17. 🔊 cause to come or go down
    “The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect”
  18. 🔊 shoot at and force to come down
    “the enemy landed several of our aircraft”
  19. 🔊 eat up completely, as with great appetite
    “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
  20. 🔊 improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
    “refine one's style of writing”
  21. 🔊 drink down entirely
    “He downed three martinis before dinner”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 para abajo down
  2. 🔊 abajo down, downwards
  3. 🔊 down down, depressed
  4. 🔊 caído down, not online
  5. 🔊 bajo down, quietly, softly (volume)
  6. 🔊 bozo down, peach fuzz (soft hair on the upper lip)

Similar words

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