down
verb/daʊn/
/daʊn/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they down | /daʊn/ /daʊn/ |
| he / she / it downs | /daʊnz/ /daʊnz/ |
| past simple downed | /daʊnd/ /daʊnd/ |
| past participle downed | /daʊnd/ /daʊnd/ |
| -ing form downing | /ˈdaʊnɪŋ/ /ˈdaʊnɪŋ/ |
- down something to finish a drink or eat something quickly
- We downed our coffees and left.
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- down somebody/something to force somebody/something down to the ground
- to down a plane
- Storms downed trees and power lines.
- down something (in American football) to touch the ball to the ground or touch your knee to the ground while holding the ball, so play has to stop
- He downed the ball inside the three-yard line.
- down something (in golf) to hit a ball into a hole
- Matthews downed a birdie putt at 15 to begin his comeback.
Word Originverb Old English dūn, dūne, shortened from adūne ‘downward’, from the phrase of dūne ‘off the hill’.
Idioms
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- (British English) (of workers) to stop work; to go on strike
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