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Sentence count:195+90Posted:2016-07-17Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: upSimilar words: downsgo downget downwidowhold downlay downwindowlie downMeaning: [daʊn]  n. 1. soft fine feathers 2. (American football) a complete play to advance the football 3. English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) 4. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil 5. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs). v. 1. drink down entirely 2. eat immoderately 3. bring down or defeat (an opponent) 4. shoot at and force to come down 5. cause to come or go down 6. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. adj. 1. being or moving lower in position or less in some value 2. becoming progressively lower 3. understood perfectly 4. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place 5. being put out by a strikeout 6. lower than previously 7. shut 8. not functioning (temporarily or permanently) 9. low in spirits. adv. 1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position 2. away from a more central or a more northerly place 3. paid in cash at time of purchase 4. from an earlier time 5. to a lower intensity 6. in an inactive or inoperative state. 
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181. The paper had fallen down between the desk and the wall.
182. He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.
183. John's had an accident: he's been knocked down by a car.
184. I tie my hair up because I don't like it straggling down my back.
185. I won't let you down, I can assure you of that.
186. He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
187. Despite her handicap, Jane is able to hold down a full-time job.
188. They had to close the factory down in the recession.
189. Ness chased the thief down and held him until police arrived.
190. To conserve electricity,(http://sentencedict.com/down.html) we are cutting down on our central heating.
191. A team of divers was sent down to examine the wreck.
192. She rolled up her sleeves and got down to work.
193. We could hear their voices growing fainter as they walked down the road.
194. In his lecture, he bore down on the importance of idiomatic usage in a language.
195. The past thing we can unforget,but we should put down.
More similar words: downsgo downget downwidowhold downlay downwindowlie downput downrun downset downdo withdowntownhand downcut downcome downslow downtake downturn downbeat downtear downpull downdown withget down tokeep downtouchdownwrite downdo withouttrack downdrink down
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