downgaze
downcast
netherward
south
dominate
overtop
downturned
command
overlook
dipping
turn down
nether
retroflexion
retroflection
obversion
backwardness
devexity
down
backward-lookingness
downslant
downcoming
downface
break bad
downdraw
downslide
descent
downwardly
backwardsness
downfalling
fall
downturn
degradedly
downstrike
descendant
deorsum-
regardant
sink
downbent
dip
downtake
rursiradiate
downgoing
run down
attenuate
lowering
declensionist
headlong
geotaxis
downwardness
mongoloid
despection
decrease
lessening
drop-off
retrospective
down-and-out
look down
downside
downily
backwardism
backstep
go south
look up and down
droop
subduct
swoop
deflected
descending
defluent
eversion
jump
downfall
stoop
retrofocus
swerving
arselong
disinvigorate
swerve
doon
declinate
topsy-turvy
veering
downtrend
aversely
downheartedness
overturn
shrinking
upgaze
seesaw
descendence
downcast
downturned
down
downcoming
descendant
regardant
downbent
rursiradiate
downgoing
declensionist
headlong
mongoloid
retrospective
deflected
descending
defluent
declinate
netherward
south
nether
downface
downwardly
degradedly
downstrike
downily
arselong
doon
aversely
downgaze
dipping
retroflexion
retroflection
obversion
backwardness
devexity
backward-lookingness
downslant
downslide
descent
backwardsness
downfalling
fall
downtake
lowering
geotaxis
downwardness
despection
decrease
lessening
drop-off
down-and-out
downside
backwardism
backstep
downgoing
swoop
eversion
downstrike
swerving
swerve
topsy-turvy
veering
downheartedness
overturn
shrinking
upgaze
descendence
south
descending
dominate
overtop
command
overlook
turn down
downslant
break bad
downdraw
downturn
sink
dip
run down
attenuate
look down
go south
look up and down
droop
subduct
jump
downfall
stoop
retrofocus
disinvigorate
downtrend
seesaw
adv
- Downward.
- Of wind, from the south.
- In an adverse direction or trend (go south).
- Toward the south; southward.
noun
- down or the negative direction
- In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
- The negative or south pole of a magnet
- One of the four principal compass points, specifically 180° (being directed towards the South Pole); conventionally downwards on a map.
- The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
adj
- Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
- Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.
- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
- from the south.
- Toward the south; southward.
verb
verb
adj
verb
- look down on
- be in command of
- make someone do something
- demand as one's due
- exercise authoritative control or power over
noun
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- a military unit or region under the control of a single officer
- the power or authority to command
- availability for use
- a position of highest authority
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
noun
- The act of inclining downward.
- The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
- The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
- The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
- An act or process of immersing.
- The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
adv
noun
- Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
- A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
verb
- To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
adj
- Facing downwards.
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
noun
- a movement downward
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
verb
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
adv
noun
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
adj
verb
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
adj
- Descending; going down
- Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
- Descending from a biological ancestor.
noun
- A language that is descended from another.
- A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- A later evolutionary type.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
prefix
adj
verb
- appear to move downward
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- cause to sink
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- fall or sink heavily
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
adj
verb
- appear to move downward
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
verb
- To weaken.
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To rarefy.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
adj
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A step backwards
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
verb
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To take a step backwards
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
noun
- An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
- A quick passage from one note to the next.
- A sudden act of seizing.
verb
- To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
verb
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To cause to jump.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
noun
- The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
noun
- An act of turning something backwards or upside down, or the situation that something is in after this has happened.
- A situation where the natural order of things has been upset.
- Chaos, confusion, disorder.
verb
adv
- Backwards or upside down; also, having been overturned or upset.
- Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.
adj
verb
noun
- An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
adj
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