down
down - noun
soft fine feathers
(American football) a complete play to advance the football
English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
down - verb
- drink down entirely
- eat immoderately
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come or go down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
down - adjective
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- becoming progressively lower
- being put out by a strikeout
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- filled with melancholy and despondency
down - adverb
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- in an inactive or inoperative state
down - thesaurus
blue
consume
depressed
devour
dispirited
downcast
downhearted
downward
downwardly
downwards
gloomy
grim
kill
land
low
mastered
pile
polish
pop
refine
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learn about the word down in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 15. Spelling choices for /ou/ sound: ou, ow.
Scrabble score for down
Scrabble score = 8
generated at 18:30:50 on 13-08-24
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