down : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)
  Downing.
  

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• verb move backwards from a certain position
  back off; back up.
  
  • The bully had to back down
• verb remove oneself from an obligation
  back off; pull out; bow out; chicken out.
  
  • He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved

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• verb persuade the seller to accept a lower price
  bargain down.
  
  • She beat the merchant down $100

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• verb furnish with battens
  batten; secure.
  
  • batten ships

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• verb exert a force with a heavy weight
  drag down; press down on; bear down; bear down on.
  
  • The snow bore down on the roof
• verb contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
  overbear.
  
• verb to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
  charge.
  
  • he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork
• verb exert full strength
  
  • The pitcher bore down
• verb pay special attention to
  
  • The lectures bore down on the political background
• verb exert a force or cause a strain upon
  
  • This tax bears down on the lower middle class

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• verb sail towards another vessel, of a ship
  bear down on.
  
• verb exert a force with a heavy weight
  drag down; press down on; bear down; bear down on.
  
  • The snow bore down on the roof

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• verb sail towards another vessel, of a ship
  bear down on.
  

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• verb persuade the seller to accept a lower price
  bargain down.
  
  • She beat the merchant down $100
• verb shine hard
  
  • The sun beat down on the hikers
• verb dislodge from a position
  
  • She beat the dealer down to a much better price

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• verb go to bed
  bed down.
  
  • We bedded down at midnight

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• verb drink down entirely
  drink down; bolt down; pop; belt down; down; kill; toss off.
  
  • He downed three martinis before dinner
  • She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  • They popped a few beer after work

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• verb get stuck while doing something
  bog.
  
  • She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
• verb cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  mire.
  
  • The mud mired our cart
• verb be unable to move further
  mire; get stuck; grind to a halt.
  
  • The car bogged down in the sand
• verb cause to slow down or get stuck
  bog.
  
  • The vote would bog down the house

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• verb be the essential element
  boil down; reduce.
  
  • The proposal boils down to a compromise
• verb be cooked until very little liquid is left
  decoct; reduce; concentrate.
  
  • The sauce should reduce to one cup
• verb cook until very little liquid is left
  concentrate; reduce.
  
  • The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time

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• verb drink down entirely
  drink down; bolt down; pop; belt down; down; kill; toss off.
  
  • He downed three martinis before dinner
  • She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  • They popped a few beer after work
• verb eat a large amount of food quickly
  gobble up; shovel in; bolt down.
  
  • The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

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• verb get into a prostrate position, as in submission
  prostrate.
  
• verb bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
  bow.
  
  • He bowed before the King
  • She bowed her head in shame

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• adjective satellite heavily burdened with work or cares
  bowed down; loaded down; overburdened.
  
  • bowed down with troubles
  • found himself loaded down with responsibilities
  • overburdened social workers
  • weighed down with cares

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• verb make ineffective
  crush.
  
  • Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
• verb make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
  take apart; dissect; analyze; analyse.
  
  • analyze a specimen
  • analyze a sentence
  • analyze a chemical compound
• verb lose control of one's emotions
  snap; lose it.
  
  • When she heard that she had not passed the exam, she lost it completely
  • When her baby died, she snapped
• verb stop operating or functioning
  die; give out; give way; break; go; go bad; conk out; fail.
  
  • The engine finally went
  • The car died on the road
  • The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town
  • The coffee maker broke
  • The engine failed on the way to town
  • her eyesight went after the accident
• verb fall apart
  collapse; tumble; crumple; crumble.
  
  • the building crumbled after the explosion
  • Negotiations broke down
• verb cause to fall or collapse
  
• verb separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
  decompose; break up.
  
• verb collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
  collapse.
  

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• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  lower; get down; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb cause the downfall of; of rulers
  subvert; overturn; overthrow.
  
  • The Czar was overthrown
  • subvert the ruling class
• verb impose something unpleasant
  impose; visit; inflict.
  
  • The principal visited his rage on the students
• verb cause to come to the ground
  bring down; land.
  
  • the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
• verb cause to be enthusiastic
  
  • Her playing brought down the house
• verb cut down on; make a reduction in
  trim; cut; cut back; bring down; reduce; cut down; trim back.
  
  • reduce your daily fat intake
  • The employer wants to cut back health benefits

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• adjective satellite in deplorable condition
  dilapidated; broken-down; tatterdemalion; ramshackle; derelict; bedraggled.
  
  • a street of bedraggled tenements
  • a broken-down fence
  • a ramshackle old pier
  • a tumble-down shack
• adjective satellite not in working order
  
  • had to push the broken-down car
  • a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on

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• verb reprimand
  tell off.
  
  • She told the misbehaving student off

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• verb work very hard, like a slave
  buckle down; break one's back; slave.
  

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• verb go to bed
  bed down.
  
  • We bedded down at midnight

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• verb burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire
  burn up; go up.
  
  • The hut burned down
  • The mountain of paper went up in flames
• verb destroy by fire
  fire; burn.
  
  • They burned the house and his diaries

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• adjective satellite unimaginatively conventional
  button-down; conservative.
  
  • a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
• adjective satellite of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
  
  • Brooks Brothers button-down shirts

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• adjective satellite unimaginatively conventional
  button-down; conservative.
  
  • a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

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• verb summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
  arouse; raise; invoke; conjure up; bring up; call forth; evoke; put forward; stir; conjure.
  
  • raise the specter of unemployment
  • he conjured wild birds in the air
  • call down the spirits from the mountain
• verb censure severely or angrily
  call on the carpet; rag; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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• verb become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
  cool off; calm; calm down; cool it; chill out; settle down.
  
  • After the fight both men need to cool off.
  • It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
• verb make calm or still
  still; tranquilize; tranquillize; quiet; calm; tranquillise; quieten; lull.
  
  • quiet the dragons of worry and fear
• verb become quiet or less intensive
  lull.
  
  • the fighting lulled for a moment

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• verb establish or set up a camp
  camp.
  

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• verb rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
  cascade.
  

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• verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  depress; dispirit; dismay; deject; demoralise; cast down; demoralize.
  
  • These news depressed her
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

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• verb suppress
  choke back; choke off.
  
  • He choked down his rage

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• verb cut down
  
  • George chopped down the cherry tree

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• noun a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Louisville; site of the Kentucky Derby
  

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• verb repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
  clamp down.
  
  • The police clamped down on illegal drugs

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• verb come down
  alight.
  
  • the birds alighted

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• noun a retraction of a previously held position
  backdown; withdrawal.
  

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• verb cease to operate or cause to cease operating
  close; close up; close down; fold.
  
  • The owners decided to move and to close the factory
  • My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
  • close up the shop

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• verb move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  descend; come down; fall.
  
  • The temperature is going down
  • The barometer is falling
  • The curtain fell on the diva
  • Her hand went up and then fell again
• verb be the essential element
  boil down; reduce.
  
  • The proposal boils down to a compromise
• verb fall from clouds
  precipitate; fall.
  
  • rain, snow and sleet were falling
  • Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
• verb get sick
  sicken.
  
  • She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
• verb criticize or reprimand harshly
  
  • The critics came down hard on the new play

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• verb make cool or cooler
  chill; cool.
  
  • Chill the food
• verb lose intensity
  cool off; cool.
  
  • His enthusiasm cooled considerably
• verb loose heat
  chill; cool.
  
  • The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm

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• verb count backwards; before detonating a bomb, for example
  

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• verb repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
  clamp down.
  
  • The police clamped down on illegal drugs

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• verb cut down on; make a reduction in
  trim; cut; cut back; bring down; reduce; cut down; trim back.
  
  • reduce your daily fat intake
  • The employer wants to cut back health benefits
• verb cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  slash.
  
• verb cause to come or go down
  down; knock down; pull down; cut down.
  
  • The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  • The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
• verb intercept (a player)
  cut out.
  
• verb cut with a blade or mower
  mow.
  
  • mow the grass
• verb cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
  drop; fell; cut down.
  
  • strike down a tree
  • Lightning struck down the hikers

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• verb write down hastily
  dash off.
  
  • She dashed off a letter to her lawyer

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• adverb in reality
  in spite of appearance; inside; at bottom; at heart.
  
  • she is very kind at heart

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• verb suffer from a disease that kills shoots
  die back.
  
  • The plants near the garage are dying back
• verb become progressively weaker
  
  • the laughter died down

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• verb sleep in a convenient place
  doss; crash.
  
  • You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable

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• a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc.

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• noun a native or resident of Maine
  Mainer.
  

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• noun soft fine feathers
  down.
  

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• (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward.

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• adjective satellite filled with melancholy and despondency
  blue; downhearted; dispirited; depressed; downcast; down; gloomy; low; low-spirited; grim.
  
  • 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

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• chopfallen; dejected.

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• (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power.

  Come down upon us with a mighty power. Shak.

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• adjective satellite understood perfectly
  down; mastered.
  
  • had his algebra problems down

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• noun a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
  deposit.
  

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• noun a stable quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron
  

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• noun a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation
  mongolism; Down syndrome; mongolianism; trisomy 21.
  

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• toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean.

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• in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

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• adverb on a floor below
  below; downstairs; on a lower floor.
  
  • the tenants live downstairs

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• noun the center of a city
  municipal center; civic center.
  

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• (Bot.), a tree of Central America (Ochroma Lagopus), the seeds of which are enveloped in vegetable wool.

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• take down, throw down, put down; used in energetic command. "Down with the palace; fire it." Dryden.

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• noun a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation
  mongolism; Down syndrome; mongolianism; trisomy 21.
  

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• noun a person who is destitute
  
  • he tried to help the down-and-out
• adjective satellite lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)
  

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• noun a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow
  

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Down"-share` noun

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1. A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. Eng. Knight.

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• adjective satellite sensible and practical
  earthy.
  
  • has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem
  • her earthy common sense

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• noun a street of Westminster in London
  
  • the Prime Minister lives at No. 10 Downing Street
• noun the British government
  

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• verb exert a force with a heavy weight
  drag down; press down on; bear down; bear down on.
  
  • The snow bore down on the roof

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• verb censure severely or angrily
  call on the carpet; rag; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
• verb dress informally and casually
  underdress.
  
  • On Fridays, employees can underdress

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• noun a severe scolding
  going-over; upbraiding; castigation; earful; bawling out; chewing out.
  

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• verb drink down entirely
  drink down; bolt down; pop; belt down; down; kill; toss off.
  
  • He downed three martinis before dinner
  • She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  • They popped a few beer after work

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• verb fall or descend to a lower place or level
  drop; sink.
  
  • He sank to his knees

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• noun a menu of options that appears below the item when the computer user clicks on it
  

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• noun down of the duck
  

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• verb become smaller or lose substance
  dwindle; dwindle away.
  
  • Her savings dwindled down

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• verb flow back or recede
  ebb off; ebb out; ebb away; ebb.
  
  • the tides ebbed at noon

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• . Cf. Icel. æthardun, Sw. eiderdun, Dan. ederduun. Down of the eider duck, much sought after as an article of luxury.

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• verb lose an upright position suddenly
  fall.
  
  • The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table
  • Her hair fell across her forehead

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• verb fight against or resist strongly
  defend; oppose; fight back; fight.
  
  • The senator said he would oppose the bill
  • Don't fight it!

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• verb signal to stop
  
  • Let's flag down a cab--it's starting to rain
  • The policeman flagged down our car

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• verb throw violently
  slam.
  
  • He slammed the book on the table

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• verb fall heavily
  flump.
  

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• verb flow freely
  flush down.
  
  • The body washed down the river

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• verb change from a liquid to a solid when cold
  freeze out; freeze.
  
  • Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit

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• verb eat a large amount of food quickly
  gobble up; shovel in; bolt down.
  
  • The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

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• verb lower (one's body) as by kneeling
  
  • Get down on your knees!
• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  lower; get down; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb alight from (a horse)
  light; dismount; unhorse; get off.
  
• verb pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
  swallow.
  
  • Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!
• verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  depress; dispirit; dismay; deject; demoralise; cast down; demoralize.
  
  • These news depressed her
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  get down; put down; set down.
  
• verb take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  begin; get; start out; set about; start; set out; commence.
  
  • We began working at dawn
  • Who will start?
  • Get working as soon as the sun rises!
  • The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
  • He began early in the day
  • Let's get down to work now

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• verb move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
  descend; come down; fall.
  
  • The temperature is going down
  • The barometer is falling
  • The curtain fell on the diva
  • Her hand went up and then fell again
• verb go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
  settle; sink; go under.
  
• verb grow smaller
  decline; wane.
  
  • Interest in the project waned
• verb be recorded or remembered
  
  • She will go down as the first feminist
• verb be ingested
  
  • This wine sure goes down well
  • The food wouldn't go down
• verb be defeated
  
  • If America goes down, the free world will go down, too
• verb disappear beyond the horizon
  set; go under.
  
  • the sun sets early these days
• verb stop operating
  crash.
  
  • My computer crashed last night
  • The system goes down at least once a week

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• verb provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
  blow; fellate; suck.
  

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• noun down of the goose
  

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• verb rule a country as a tyrant
  tyrannize; tyrannise.
  

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• verb strike down or shoot down
  

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• noun British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep
  Hampshire.
  

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• verb passed on, as by inheritance
  
  • This ring was handed down through many generations

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• adjective satellite passed on from one person to another
  hand-down.
  
  • not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes

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• noun outgrown garment passed down from one person to another
  
• adjective satellite passed on from one person to another
  hand-down.
  
  • not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes

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• adjective satellite having been passed along from generation to generation
  tralatitious.
  
  • among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor

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• adverb with no difficulty
  handily.
  
  • she beat him handily

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• adjective satellite achieved without great effort
  
  • a hands-down victory

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• verb have (something) mastered
  
  • She has the names of the fifty states down pat

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• helm alee.

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• verb keep
  
  • She manages to hold down two jobs
• verb restrain
  
  • please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep

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• noun a limitation or constraint
  
  • taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending

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• verb water with a hose
  hose.
  
  • hose the lawn

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• said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

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• verb sit on one's heels
  scrunch; crouch; hunker; squat; scrunch up.
  
  • In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
  • The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
• verb take shelter
  
  • During the sandstorm, they hunkered down in a small hut
• verb hold stubbornly to a position
  
  • The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down

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• verb pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
  hunt down; hunt; run.
  
  • Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
  • The dogs are running deer
  • The Duke hunted in these woods

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• noun English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
  Down.
  

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• verb write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
  jot.
  

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• noun jumping in one spot (as in excitement)
  
  • the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him

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• verb place a limit on the number of
  number.
  
• verb put down by force or intimidation
  subdue; reduce; repress; quash; subjugate.
  
  • The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
  • China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
  • The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
• verb manage not to throw up
  

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• verb open violently
  kick in.
  
  • kick in the doors

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• verb prepare for sleep
  retire; sack out; hit the sack; bed; turn in; go to bed; go to sleep; crawl in; hit the hay.
  
  • I usually turn in at midnight
  • He goes to bed at the crack of dawn

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• verb cause to come or go down
  down; knock down; pull down; cut down.
  
  • The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  • The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
• verb knock down with force
  floor; dump; coldcock; deck.
  
  • He decked his opponent
• verb shatter as if by explosion
  blast.
  

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• adjective satellite strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
  powerful.
  
  • a knock-down blow

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• adjective satellite extremely violent
  knockdown-dragout.
  
  • a knock-down-and-drag-out fight

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• verb work very hard, like a slave
  buckle down; break one's back; slave.
  

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• verb institute, enact, or establish
  make; establish.
  
  • make laws

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• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  lower; get down; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb fail to meet the hopes or expectations of
  disappoint.
  
  • Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage

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• noun the act of causing something to move to a lower level
  lowering.
  

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• verb assume a reclining position
  lie.
  
  • lie down on the bed until you feel better

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• verb live so as to annul some previous behavior
  unlive.
  
  • You can never live this down!

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• verb load with a pack
  pack.
  

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• adjective satellite heavily burdened with work or cares
  bowed down; loaded down; overburdened.
  
  • bowed down with troubles
  • found himself loaded down with responsibilities
  • overburdened social workers
  • weighed down with cares
• adjective satellite bearing a physically heavy weight or load
  burdened; heavy-laden.
  
  • tree limbs burdened with ice
  • a heavy-laden cart
  • loaded down with packages

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Lock"-down` noun

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1. A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen. U.S.

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• verb regard with contempt
  
  • the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest

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• noun slang terms for inside information
  dope; the skinny; poop.
  
  • is that the straight dope?
• adjective satellite of the most contemptible kind
  scurvy; scummy; low; abject; miserable.
  
  • abject cowardice
  • a low stunt to pull
  • a low-down sneak
  • his miserable treatment of his family
  • You miserable skunk!
  • a scummy rabble
  • a scurvy trick
• adjective satellite (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
  funky.
  

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• verb reduce the price of
  

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• verb reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
  run; melt.
  
  • melt butter
  • melt down gold
  • The wax melted in the sun

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• verb kill a large number of people indiscriminately
  massacre; slaughter.
  
  • The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda

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• verb succeed in obtaining a position
  nail; peg.
  
  • He nailed down a spot at Harvard
• verb define clearly
  nail down; narrow down; narrow; specify; peg down.
  
  • I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
• verb make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
  settle; finalise; finalize.
  
  • let's finalize the proposal

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• verb define clearly
  nail down; narrow down; narrow; specify; peg down.
  
  • I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
• verb become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
  specialise; specialize; narrow.
  
  • She specializes in Near Eastern history

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• verb decrease gradually or bit by bit
  pare.
  

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• verb fasten or secure with a wooden pin
  peg.
  
  • peg a tent
• verb define clearly
  nail down; narrow down; narrow; specify; peg down.
  
  • I cannot narrow down the rules for this game

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• adjective satellite fastened by pegs
  
  • the pegged-down branches of the plant will take root

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• verb define clearly
  nail down; narrow down; narrow; specify; peg down.
  
  • I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
• verb place in a confining or embarrassing position
  trap.
  
  • He was trapped in a difficult situation
• verb attach with or as if with a pin
  pin up.
  
  • pin up a picture

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• verb become quiet or quieter
  quiesce; pipe down; quiet; hush; quieten.
  
  • The audience fell silent when the speaker entered

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• verb cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
  place down; put down.
  
  • set down your bags here

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• verb drop heavily
  plonk down; plank down.
  

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• verb understate the importance or quality of
  downplay; background.
  
  • he played down his royal ancestry

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• verb drop heavily
  plonk down; plank down.
  

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• verb drop heavily
  plonk down; plank down.
  
• verb set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  plop; plunk; plonk; flump; plump; plank; plump down.
  
  • He planked the money on the table
  • He planked himself into the sofa

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• verb set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
  plop; plunk; plonk; flump; plump; plank; plump down.
  
  • He planked the money on the table
  • He planked himself into the sofa

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• verb drink down entirely
  drink down; bolt down; pop; belt down; down; kill; toss off.
  
  • He downed three martinis before dinner
  • She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  • They popped a few beer after work

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• (Zoöl.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers.

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• (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation.

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• (Zoöl.), a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers.

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• verb press down
  depress.
  
  • Depress the space key

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• verb exert a force with a heavy weight
  drag down; press down on; bear down; bear down on.
  
  • The snow bore down on the roof

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• verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  rase; level; take down; dismantle; pull down; raze.
  
  • The building was levelled
• verb cause to come or go down
  down; knock down; pull down; cut down.
  
  • The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  • The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet

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• verb cause to come or go down
  down; knock down; pull down; cut down.
  
  • The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  • The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet

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• noun a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
  stack; push-down list.
  

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• noun a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)
  

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• noun a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
  stack; push-down list.
  

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• noun a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
  push-down storage; stack.
  

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• noun a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
  push-down storage; stack.
  

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• verb cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
  place down; put down.
  
  • set down your bags here
• verb put in a horizontal position
  repose; lay.
  
  • lay the books on the table
  • lay the patient carefully onto the bed
• verb cause to come to the ground
  bring down; land.
  
  • the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
• verb reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  demean; disgrace; degrade; put down.
  
  • She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  • His critics took him down after the lecture
• verb leave or unload
  unload; drop off; drop; put down; discharge.
  
  • unload the cargo
  • drop off the passengers at the hotel
• verb put (an animal) to death
  destroy.
  
  • The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid
  • the sick cat had to be put down
• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  get down; put down; set down.
  
• verb make a record of; set down in permanent form
  record; enter.
  

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• noun a crushing remark
  squelch; squelcher; takedown.
  

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• verb become quiet or quieter
  quiesce; pipe down; quiet; hush; quieten.
  
  • The audience fell silent when the speaker entered

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• verb precipitate as rain
  rain.
  
  • If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding

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• verb strike or drive against with a heavy impact
  ram; pound.
  
  • ram the gate with a sledgehammer
  • pound on the door
• verb teach by drills and repetition
  hammer in; beat in; drill in.
  

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• verb move by degrees in one direction only
  ratchet; rachet up.
  
  • a ratcheting lopping tool

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• verb recite volubly or extravagantly
  spiel off; roll off; reel off; rattle off.
  
  • He could recite the names of all the chemical elements

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• verb be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten
  take the count.
  

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• adjective satellite complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
  sheer; rank; downright; out-and-out; absolute.
  
  • absolute freedom
  • an absolute dimwit
  • a downright lie
  • out-and-out mayhem
  • an out-and-out lie
  • a rank outsider
  • many right-down vices
  • got the job through sheer persistence
  • sheer stupidity
• adverb positively
  
  • a regular right-down bad 'un"--Charles Dickens

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• verb gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
  avalanche.
  

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• verb lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
  abseil; rappel.
  
  • The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous
  • You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing

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• verb express as a round number
  round out; round; round off.
  
  • round off the amount

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• verb wear away
  corrade; rub off; abrase; abrade.
  
• verb manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes
  knead; massage.
  
  • She rubbed down her child with a sponge

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• verb trace
  check out.
  
  • We are running down a few tips
• verb move downward
  
  • The water ran down
• verb injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
  run over.
  
• verb use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
  run out; peter out; poop out; conk out.
  
  • At the end of the march, I pooped out
• verb examine hastily
  glance over; rake; skim; scan.
  
  • She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
• verb deplete
  exhaust; play out; sap; tire.
  
  • exhaust one's savings
  • We quickly played out our strength
• verb pursue until captured
  
  • They ran down the fugitive

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• adjective satellite worn and broken down by hard use
  woebegone; creaky; decrepit; derelict; flea-bitten.
  
  • a creaky shack
  • a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
  • a flea-bitten sofa
  • a run-down neighborhood
  • a woebegone old shack
• adjective satellite having the spring unwound
  
  • a run-down watch

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• verb cause to sag
  sag.
  
  • The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably

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• verb reduce proportionally
  
  • The model is scaled down
• verb make smaller
  reduce.
  
  • reduce an image

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• (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed.

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• verb suspend temporarily from college or university, in England
  rusticate.
  

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• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  get down; put down; set down.
  
• verb reach or come to rest
  land.
  
  • The bird landed on the highest branch
  • The plane landed in Istanbul
• verb put or settle into a position
  
  • The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley
• verb cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
  place down; put down.
  
  • set down your bags here
• verb go ashore
  disembark; debark.
  
  • The passengers disembarked at Southampton
• verb leave or unload
  unload; drop off; drop; put down; discharge.
  
  • unload the cargo
  • drop off the passengers at the hotel

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• verb settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
  settle.
  
  • dust settled on the roofs
• verb become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
  settle; root; take root; settle down.
  
  • He finally settled down
• verb become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
  cool off; calm; calm down; cool it; chill out; settle down.
  
  • After the fight both men need to cool off.
  • It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.

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• verb move quickly and violently
  tear; shoot; charge; buck.
  
  • The car tore down the street
  • He came charging into my office
• verb shoot at and force to come down
  down; land.
  
  • the enemy landed several of our aircraft
• verb thwart the passage of
  vote out; kill; shoot down; defeat.
  
  • kill a motion
  • he shot down the student's proposal

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• noun murder by shooting someone down in cold blood
  

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• verb silence or overwhelm by shouting
  

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• verb rain abundantly
  shower.
  
  • Meteors showered down over half of Australia

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• verb cease to operate or cause to cease operating
  close; close up; close down; fold.
  
  • The owners decided to move and to close the factory
  • My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
  • close up the shop

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• verb become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
  cool off; calm; calm down; cool it; chill out; settle down.
  
  • After the fight both men need to cool off.
  • It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.

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• verb take a seat
  sit.
  
• verb show to a seat; assign a seat for
  sit; seat.
  
  • The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith
• verb be seated
  sit.
  

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• noun a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached
  sit-down.
  

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• noun a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached
  sit-down.
  

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• verb give a smooth and glossy appearance
  sleek down; slick.
  
  • slick one's hair

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• verb give a smooth and glossy appearance
  sleek down; slick.
  
  • slick one's hair

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• verb fall or sink heavily
  slump; sink.
  
  • He slumped onto the couch
  • My spirits sank

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• verb take off weight
  slim; melt off; slenderize; reduce; lose weight; thin.
  

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• verb lose velocity; move more slowly
  decelerate; slow; retard; slow up.
  
  • The car decelerated
• verb become slow or slower
  slacken; slow; slack; slow up.
  
  • Production slowed
• verb cause to proceed more slowly
  slow; slow up.
  
  • The illness slowed him down
• verb reduce the speed of
  decelerate.
  
  • He slowed down the car
• verb become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
  unwind; unbend; relax; decompress; loosen up.
  
  • He relaxed in the hot tub
  • Let's all relax after a hard day's work

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• verb pour as if from a sluice
  sluice.
  
  • An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef

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• noun a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
  reverse stock split; reverse split.
  

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• verb clean with a sponge, by rubbing
  sponge off.
  
• verb wash with a sponge
  

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• verb to put down by force or authority
  inhibit; subdue; suppress; curb; conquer.
  
  • suppress a nascent uprising
  • stamp down on littering
  • conquer one's desires

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• noun a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness
  standdown.
  
• noun (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action
  standdown.
  

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• verb overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring
  outface; outstare.
  
  • He simply stared down his opponent

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• verb become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
  settle; root; take root; settle down.
  
  • He finally settled down

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Steep"-down` adjective

Definitions

1. Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. R.

   Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.

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• verb give up or retire from a position
  quit; leave office; resign.
  
  • The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
  • The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
• verb reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
  de-escalate; weaken.
  
  • de-escalate a crisis

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• noun the act of decreasing or reducing something
  diminution; reduction; decrease.
  

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• noun a transformer that reduces voltage
  

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• noun a formal resignation and renunciation of powers
  abdication.
  
• noun the act of abdicating
  abdication.
  

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• verb declare null and void; make ineffective
  cancel.
  
  • Cancel the election results
  • strike down a law
• verb cause to die, especially suddenly
  
  • The disease struck down many young men in the village
• verb cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
  drop; fell; cut down.
  
  • strike down a tree
  • Lightning struck down the hikers

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• verb get undressed
  uncase; peel; undress; strip; unclothe; disrobe; discase.
  
  • please don't undress in front of everybody!
  • She strips in front of strangers every night for a living

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• adjective satellite having only essential or minimal features
  stripped.
  
  • a stripped new car
  • a stripped-down budget

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• noun soft woolen fabric used especially for baby clothes
  
• noun down of the swan
  

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Swan's"-down`, Swans"-down` noun (Also<

• Swan's-down
• Swans-down

)

Definitions

1. The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.
2. A fine, soft, thick cloth of wool mixed with silk or cotton; a sort of twilled fustian, like moleskin.

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• . See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.

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• verb drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
  swill.
  

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• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  lower; get down; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  demean; disgrace; degrade; put down.
  
  • She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  • His critics took him down after the lecture
• verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  rase; level; take down; dismantle; pull down; raze.
  
  • The building was levelled
• verb make a written note of
  note.
  
  • she noted everything the teacher said that morning

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• verb suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
  
  • I won't take this insult lying down

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• verb belittle through talk
  
• verb speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child
  
  • He talks down to her
• verb direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio
  
  • the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill

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• verb press down tightly
  tamp; pack.
  
  • tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso

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• verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  rase; level; take down; dismantle; pull down; raze.
  
  • The building was levelled

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• noun complete destruction of a building
  demolishing; leveling; razing.
  

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• verb secure with or as if with ropes
  bind; tie up; truss.
  
  • tie down the prisoners
  • tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
• verb restrain from independence by an obligation
  
  • He was tied down by his work

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• to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. U.S.

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• to retreat or withdraw from a promise, engagement, or contest; to recede. Colloq.

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• to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

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• (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens.

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• to be slovenly or in a poor plight.

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• to dislike and treat harshly. Slang, U.S.

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• . (a) To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. "His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance." Marryat. (b) To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy.

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• (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy.

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• to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. Colloq.

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• (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; said of a stag.

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• to reduce in bulk by boiling; as, to boil down sap or sirup.

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• . (a) To crush; to overwhelm; as, to break down one's strength; to break down opposition. (b) To remove, or open a way through, by breaking; as, to break down a door or wall.
• . (a) To come down by breaking; as, the coach broke down. (b) To fail in any undertaking.

  He had broken down almost at the outset. Thackeray.

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• . (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks.

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• to cause tremendous applause. Colloq.

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• to burn entirely.
• to be entirely consumed.

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• to pray for, as blessing or curses.

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• to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" Ps. xiii. 5.

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• (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines.

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• . (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled.

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• to call to account, to reprimand. Colloq. Dickens.

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• to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing.

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• to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.

  Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillotson.

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• . (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble, Obs "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop.

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• to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.

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• to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak.

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• (Naut.), to sail, row, or move down a river, or toward the sea.

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• (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.

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• to put down by bold or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior.

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• . (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him." Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth." Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.

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• . (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge.

  This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken. Tennyson.

  (b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin.

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• . (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; used literally or figuratively. Colloq.

  Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. L' Estrange.

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• to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.

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• to let fall below the proper position; to bend down; to decline; as, to hang down the head, or, elliptically, to hang the head.

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• (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her.

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• . (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder . (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may not be diverted from the more important parts of the work.

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• . (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant . (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off.

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• . (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker . (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform.

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• . (a) To stake as a wager. (b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms . (c) To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle.

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• . (a) To lower . (b) To soften in tempering; as to let down tools, cutlery, and the like. to let (someone) down. to disappoint (someone) by filing to perform as expected.

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• to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.

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• to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise.

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• to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state.

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• to oppress, or humiliate by preaching. Tennyson.

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• to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon.

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• to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

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• . (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices . (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion of traitors .

  Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak.

  Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Bacon.

  (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name.

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• to take a resolute stand; to be determined. Colloq.

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• . (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy . (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.

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• . (a) To clean by rubbing; to comb or curry; as, to down a horse . (b) To reduce or remove by rubbing; as, to rub down the rough points.

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• . (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the exhaustion of the motive power; said of clocks, watches, etc. batteries (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
• . (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down, a stag . (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel . (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear .

  "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley.

  (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman.

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• to sail along it.

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• to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

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• to sow with grass seed.

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• to take up one's residence; to lodge. Obs.

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• . (a) To enter in writing; to register.

  Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. Clarendon.

  (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.

  This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. Hooker.

  (c) To humiliate.

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• . (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired . (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town . (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode . Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search." Rogers.

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• (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.

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• . (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud . "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold . (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.

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• to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.

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• to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall.

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• to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; hence the phrases.

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• to challenge to combat.

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• to lie down neglectively or suddenly.

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• . (a) To fasten so as to prevent from rising. (b) To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.

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• . (a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower tone to. (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius.

  Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. C. Kingsley.

  (c) Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of; to soften.

  The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures. Palfrey.

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• . (a) To fold or double down. (b) To turn over so as to conceal the face of; as, to turn down cards. (c) To lower, or reduce in size, by turning a valve, stopcock, or the like; as, turn down the lights.

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• to confuse by putting things awry; to throw into disorder.

  This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. Shak.

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• . (a) To overbalance. (b) To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down."
• to sink by its own weight.

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• verb deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
  dampen; mute; muffle; damp; dull.
  
• verb make less strong or intense; soften
  moderate; tame.
  
  • Tone down that aggressive letter
  • The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements

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• adjective of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details
  
  • a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends
  • top-down programming

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• verb come or bring (a plane) to a landing
  
  • the plane touched down at noon

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• verb pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
  hunt down; hunt; run.
  
  • Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
  • The dogs are running deer
  • The Duke hunted in these woods

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• verb walk on and flatten
  tramp down; trample.
  
  • tramp down the grass
  • trample the flowers

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• verb walk on and flatten
  tramp down; trample.
  
  • tramp down the grass
  • trample the flowers

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• verb cut down on; make a reduction in
  trim; cut; cut back; bring down; reduce; cut down; trim back.
  
  • reduce your daily fat intake
  • The employer wants to cut back health benefits

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• adjective satellite in deplorable condition
  dilapidated; broken-down; tatterdemalion; ramshackle; derelict; bedraggled.
  
  • a street of bedraggled tenements
  • a broken-down fence
  • a ramshackle old pier
  • a tumble-down shack

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Tum"ble-down` adjective

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1. Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. Colloq.

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• verb refuse to accept
  decline; refuse; pass up; reject.
  
  • He refused my offer of hospitality
• verb refuse entrance or membership
  refuse; turn away; reject.
  
  • They turned away hundreds of fans
  • Black people were often rejected by country clubs
• verb reject with contempt
  freeze off; spurn; disdain; reject; scorn; pooh-pooh.
  
  • She spurned his advances
• verb take a downward direction
  
  • The economy finally turned down after a long boom
• verb make lower or quieter
  lour; lower.
  
  • turn down the volume of a radio

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• verb vote against
  turn thumbs down.
  
  • The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position

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• (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by reversing the flag, or turning its union downward.

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• adverb moving backward and forward along a given course
  
  • he walked up and down the locker room
  • all up and down the Eastern seaboard
• adverb alternately upward and downward
  
  • he eyed him up and down

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• with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. "Let them wander up and down." Ps. lix. 15.

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• alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. Colloq.

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• adverb in an inverted manner
  
  • the box was lying on the floor upside down

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• . Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.

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• adjective satellite being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
  inverted.
  
  • a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma
  • an upside-down cake

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• noun batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top
  skillet cake.
  

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• verb thwart the passage of
  vote out; kill; shoot down; defeat.
  
  • kill a motion
  • he shot down the student's proposal
• verb vote against
  turn thumbs down.
  
  • The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position

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• verb eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically
  
  • She washed down her dinner with a bottle of red wine
  • He washes down his worries with a nightly glass of whisky
• verb flow freely
  flush down.
  
  • The body washed down the river

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• verb make less strong or intense
  
  • water down the mixture
• verb thin by adding water to
  
  • They watered down the moonshine

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• verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
  wear out; tire; jade; fag out; weary; fatigue; wear; tire out; outwear; fag; wear upon.
  
  • We wore ourselves out on this hike
• verb deteriorate through use or stress
  wear out; wear off; wear thin; wear.
  
  • The constant friction wore out the cloth

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• verb be oppressive or disheartening to
  weigh on.
  
• verb exert a force with a heavy weight
  drag down; press down on; bear down; bear down on.
  
  • The snow bore down on the roof

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• adjective satellite full of; bearing great weight
  heavy.
  
  • trees heavy with fruit
  • vines weighed down with grapes
• adjective satellite heavily burdened with work or cares
  bowed down; loaded down; overburdened.
  
  • bowed down with troubles
  • found himself loaded down with responsibilities
  • overburdened social workers
  • weighed down with cares

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• verb weight down with a load
  burthen; weight; burden.
  

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• verb cut away in small pieces
  whittle away; wear away.
  

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• verb eat hastily
  wolf.
  
  • The teenager wolfed down the pizza

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• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  get down; put down; set down.
  
• verb reduce the estimated value of something
  expense; write off.
  
  • For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer

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• noun (accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset
  write-off.
  

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