Down

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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)

VERB

drink down entirely

eat up completely, as with great appetite

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

ADJ

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

ADV

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

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