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Noun down has 5 senses
- down, down feather - soft fine feathers
--1 is a kind of feather, plume, plumage
--1 has particulars: duck down; goose down; swan's down; plumule
- down - (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards"
--2 is a kind of turn, play
- Down, John L. H. Down - English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
--3 is a kind of doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
- down - (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
--4 is a kind of highland, upland
- down, pile - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
--5 is a kind of hair
--5 has particulars: lanugo
Verb down has 6 senses
- toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill - drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
--1 is one way to drink, imbibe
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- devour, down, consume, go through - eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
--2 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
They down more bread
- down - bring down or defeat (an opponent)
--3 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to down his opponent
- down, shoot down, land - shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down - cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
--5 is one way to strike
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to down his opponent
- polish, refine, fine-tune, down - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
--6 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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