Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered or stuffed with down.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective knocked down.
- adjective (Football) touched to the ground, thus ending the play; -- of a football.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
down . - adjective That has been brought down
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Examples
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Now I know a man who is actually _in_ it, and he _says_ -- and he knows this for a _fact_ -- that from the _moment_ when the _first man_ downed tools -- from the very moment when he _downed tools_ ... "
The Sunny Side 1919
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At Moscow, Safin downed Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-6 (7-3), 6-3, 6-2 to win it for Russia.
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He called the downed U.S. drone in Iran "a significant intelligence loss" and said he thinks the administration should have considered going in and "taking out the drone."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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He also voted against another amendment that would have discouraged the sale of what is called downed animal meat, meat from animals too sick to stand and he voted against allowing the shield to apply to applying to manufacturers and distributors of weight loss products that have been found to harmful to consumers.
If You Eat, There is No Reason to Support Mark Kirk Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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The bright spot was that two of the punts were downed, which is what the punt team is trying to accomplish.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The other day, after work, MWK and I were sitting on my deck while Teddy ran around the yard, having all kinds of fun in the doggie play land (also known as the downed tree).
BY THE BAYOU 2009
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He has had 15 punts downed, which is tops in the league.
Arrowhead Pride 2009
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He is proposing that ANC commissioners receive training and be given emergency kits so they can help police and firefighters respond to incidents such as downed power lines or trees.
Council member wants Pepco to foot the bill for customers' lodging during outages Washington Post Editors 2011
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The trick to finding them is to cut the river down to size, fishing obvious holes and pools behind rocks, fishing around the numerous forks in the river, and along bank cover, such as downed trees.
Fishing in Montana 2010
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You may recall that the whole episode began with the posting of a video on YouTube showing the producer in question -- Westland/Hallmark -- processing 'downed' cattle.
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