run down
downcoming
turn down
fall
descent
downbound
downwardly
downstrike
netherward
go down
geotaxis
come down
descend
south
decline
downturn
deorsum-
go over
fall over
nether
descendant
slip
downgoing
downturned
downcast
dip
sink
backstep
katabasis
backpedal
subduct
double
downsloping
downface
down
dipping
downfalling
depression
descensive
droop
downflowing
under
below
descending
retrogress
downstream
doon
lessening
downslant
come down to
drop-off
decrease
degressive
fall back
back
downbent
bump
beway
diffuse
fan out
spread out
D
spread
declivous
headlong
go down the wrong pipe
decurved
pass
step over
travel by
downpress
go by
go past
pass by
surpass
obversion
smartsizing
hield
devexity
down-and-out
downcoming
descendant
downstrike
downgoing
downturned
downcast
downsloping
down
downfalling
descensive
downflowing
descending
degressive
downbent
declivous
downbound
headlong
decurved
downbound
downwardly
downstrike
netherward
south
nether
double
downface
under
below
doon
D
down
fall
descent
geotaxis
decline
backstep
katabasis
downgoing
dipping
depression
sink
lessening
drop-off
decrease
descending
beway
downfalling
downslant
obversion
smartsizing
devexity
down-and-out
run down
turn down
fall
go down
come down
descend
downturn
go over
fall over
downstrike
decline
slip
dip
sink
backpedal
subduct
droop
retrogress
downstream
downslant
come down to
fall back
back
bump
diffuse
fan out
spread out
spread
backstep
go down the wrong pipe
pass
step over
travel by
downpress
go by
go past
pass by
surpass
hield
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
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- 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
verb
- To go in a downward direction.
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- 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
noun
- 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.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adv
- Downward.
- Of wind, from the south.
- In an adverse direction or trend (go south).
- Toward the south; southward.
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
- To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
- To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
noun
- 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.
- down or the negative direction
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A weakening.
- A reduction or diminution of activity.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
verb
- To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- To cause to decrease or diminish.
- To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- To become weaker or worse.
- To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
prefix
adv
adj
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.
noun
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.
verb
- To move down; to slide.
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
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
- 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
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 take a step backwards
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- 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.
adv
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- twice as great or many
- large enough for two
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
verb
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
adj
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
noun
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.
adv
- Get down.
- 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).
- 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.
prep
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.
noun
- pushing down
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
adj
verb
adj
- Further along in the flow of current, in relation to a river, stream, bloodstream, or other flow of fluid.
- In the direction from the server to the client.
- Towards the 3′ end of a DNA molecule.
- Occurring later than something else; (also, usually, especially) influenced by something else; being a consequence of something else.
adv
noun
verb
- travel backward
- be behind; approve of
- give support or one's approval to
- cause to travel backward
- support financial backing for
- be in back of
- place a bet on
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- establish as valid or genuine
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
adj
noun
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
adv
- in or to or toward a former location
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward an original condition
- in or to or toward a past time
- in reply
- in repayment or retaliation
adj
adj
verb
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
- To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- To assassinate; to bump off.
- Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
- To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
intj
noun
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- A coarse cotton fabric.
- The sound of such a collision.
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
- The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
- A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
verb
adv
adj
noun
- The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
- The penalty arc on a football pitch.
- Canonical decomposition
- A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.
name
character
intj
verb
- move outward
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- spread across or over
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- cover by spreading something over
- distribute over a surface in a layer
adj
- distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- fully extended in width
noun
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- decorative cover for a bed
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
adj
adj
verb
- move past
- go across or through
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- for time to move forward
- place into the hands or custody of
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- travel past
- come to pass
- go unchallenged; be approved
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- pass over, across, or through
- transmit information
- disappear gradually
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- be superior or better than some standard
- accept or judge as acceptable
- allow to go without comment or censure
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- throw (a ball) to another player
- be inherited by
- cause to pass
- grant authorization or clearance for
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
adj
noun
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- (military) a written leave of absence
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- a complimentary ticket
- a usually brief attempt
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
verb
verb
noun
noun
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