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1. (noun) downdown feather
soft fine feathers


2. (noun) down
(American football) a complete play to advance the football
"you have four downs to gain ten yards"

3. (noun) DownJohn L. H. Down
English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)


4. (noun) down
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil


5. (noun) downpile
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)


6. (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"

7. (adj) down(a)downward(a)
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
"the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"

8. (adj) down(a)
becoming progressively lower
"the down trend in the real estate market"

9. (adj) down(p)
being put out by a strikeout
"two down in the bottom of the ninth"

10. (adj) downdown pat(p)mastered
understood perfectly
"had his algebra problems down"

11. (adj) depresseddown(p)
lower than previously
"the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

12. (adj) down
shut
"the shades were down"

13. (adj) down
not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
"we can't work because the computer is down"

14. (adj) gloomygrimbluedepresseddispiriteddown(p)downcastdownhearteddown in the mouthlowlow-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"

15. (verb) toss offpopbolt downbelt downpour downdowndrink downkill
drink down entirely
"He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

16. (verb) devourdownconsumego through
eat immoderately
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

17. (verb) down
bring down or defeat (an opponent)


18. (verb) downshoot downland
shoot at and force to come down
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

19. (verb) downknock downcut downpush downpull 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"

20. (verb) polishrefinefine-tunedown
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
"refine one's style of writing"


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