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— English words —

• down adv. (Comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• down adv. (Comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
• down adv. As a down payment.
• down adv. On paper (or in a durable record).
• down adv. To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• down adv. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
• down adv. At or towards any place that is visualised as ’down’ by virtue of local features or local convention…
• down adv. (Sports) Towards the opponent’s side (in ball-sports).
• down adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• down adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• down adv. (Rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• down adv. (Sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• down adv. (UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• down adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• down adv. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
• down adv. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
• down adv. From less to greater detail.
• down adv. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
• down adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence…
• down adv. Forward, straight ahead.
• down prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• down prep. From north to south of.
• down prep. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
• down prep. (Colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one’s present location or other point of reference).
• down adj. Facing downwards.
• down adj. At a lower level than before.
• down adj. (Informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
• down adj. Sick, wounded, or damaged…
• down adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• down adj. (Baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• down adj. (Colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
• down adj. (North America, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• down adj. (AAVE, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
• down adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often…
• down adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
• down adj. (Obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• down adj. (Of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
• down v. (Transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
• down v. (Transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
• down v. (Transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
• down v. (Transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
• down v. (Intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.
• down v. (Transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing…
• down v. (Transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching…
• down v. (Transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
• down n. A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
• down n. (Dated) A grudge (on someone).
• down n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• down n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• down n. (Crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• down n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• down n. Down payment.
• down n. The lightest quark with a charge number of -¹⁄₃.
• down n. (Especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• down n. (Usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• down n. (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with…
• down n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• down n. (Botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
• down n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• down n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• down v. (Transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
• Down prop.n. One of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland, usually known as County Down.
• Down prop.n. A surname.
• down- pref. Decrease.
• down- pref. Lower position or direction, literally or figuratively.
• down- pref. De-emphasis.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Chinese
  • down adj. (Hong Kong Cantonese) sad; depressed.
  • down v. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to be sad; to be depressed.
  • down v. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly computing) to be out of service.
  • down v. (Informal) to download.
• Polish
  • down n. (Colloquial, neurology) Down syndrome.
  • down n. (Colloquial, neurology) Downie (person with Down syndrome).
  • down n. (Colloquial, derogatory) dip, dumbhead, dumb cluck, dummkopf, hammerhead, ignorant.
• Welsh
  • down v. First-person plural present/future of dod.
  • down v. First-person singular imperfect/conditional of dod.
  • down v. (Literary) first-person plural imperative of dod.

— English words, defined in German —

• down Adv. Hinunter, herunter.
• down Adj. Unten.
• down Adj. Deprimiert, depressiv.
• down Adj. Computer: ausgeschaltet.
• down S. Dunen, Daunen.
• down S. Flaum.
• down S. Hügelland.
• down S. Stimmungstief.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• down voorz. Langs.
• down bijw. Neer, naar beneden.
• down bijv. Gedeprimeerd.
• down bijv. Buiten werking.
• down w. Neerslagen.
• down w. Doorslikken.
• down n. (Natuurkunde) naam van een van de zes quarks waaruit protonen en neutronen zijn opgebouwd.

— English words, defined in French —

• down adj. (Familier) Dépressif, déprimé.
• down adj. (Familier) Partant.
• down adj. (Chemin de fer) Au loin d’un grand terminus.
• down adv. En descendant, en tombant.
• down n. Duvet.
• down n. Prairie calcaire.
• down prép. Vers le bas.
• down v. (Transitif) Abattre, descendre.
• down v. (Transitif) Faire cul sec.
• down v. Laisser tomber.
• Down n.prop. Comté et ancien district d’Irlande du Nord.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• down adv. Hacia abajo.
• down adv. Al suelo.
• down adv. A través de los tiempos.
• down adv. Abajo.
• down prep. Abajo.
• down prep. Por.
• down v. Beber una bebida de un trago.
• down s. Plumón.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• down adv. Para baixo.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• down adv. Abbasso, a basso.

— In German —

• down Adj. Deprimiert bis depressiv.

— In Dutch —

• down bijv. Gedeprimeerd, neerslachtig.
• down bijv. (Informatica) buiten werking.
• down bijv. (Informatica) omlaag.
• down n. (Natuurkunde) naam van een van de zes quarks waaruit protonen…

— In French —

• down adj. (Familier) Dépressif, déprimé.
• down adj. (Familier) Partant.
• down adj. (Boxe) Mise hors de combat, knock-down.
• Down n.prop. Comté et ancien district d’Irlande du Nord.

371 English words from 76 English definitions

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31 English words from 45 foreign definitions

bas basso bis Chemin␣de␣fer combat Computer Comté descendant district down Duvet een Faire fer grand hors␣de␣combat knock knock␣down Langs loin Mise naam Neer Nord Para Prairie quarks sec terminus van Vers

67 foreign words from 45 foreign definitions

abajo Abattre Abbasso ancien A␣través Au␣loin ausgeschaltet baixo Beber bebida beneden Boxe buiten calcaire Chemin cul cul␣sec Daunen de␣fer Dépressif depressiv déprimé Deprimiert descendre Doorslikken Dunen Faire␣cul␣sec Familier Flaum Hacia herunter Hinunter hors hors␣de Hügelland Informatica Irlande Irlande␣du␣Nord knock-down Laisser Laisser␣tomber los naar Natuurkunde neerslachtig Neerslagen neutronen Nord. omlaag opgebouwd Partant Plumón Por protonen suelo tiempos tombant tomber trago Transitif través una Unten waaruit werking zes zijn

752 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

downe Downe downs Downs Down's downy downed Downen downer Downes Downey downie Downie downto down␣to Downum Downard downarg down␣bad downbet downbow down␣bow downcut downdip downdog down␣dog Downend Downens downers downest Downesy Downeys downfal Downham downier downies Downies downily downing Downing Downley downlit downlow down-low down␣low downmix down␣pat downset down-set Downton +702 words

582 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

godowns undowny Ashdowns brodowns buydowns buy-downs cutdowns drydowns dubdowns go␣down␣on goedowns hagdowns hoedowns hoe-downs laydowns lay-downs letdowns let-downs liedowns lie-downs lowdowns mixdowns oildowns oil-downs oil␣downs patdowns paydowns putdowns put-downs put␣downs rubdowns rundowns run-downs setdowns set-downs sitdowns sit-downs sundowns tiedowns tie-downs tie␣downs undowned wetdowns backdowns beatdowns beat␣downs blowdowns boildowns burndowns comedowns come-downs +531 words

922 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

adown sdown do␣down godown go␣down Ashdown bed␣down bit␣down bog␣down bow␣down brodown buydown buy-down cry␣down cutdown cut-down cut␣down did␣down die␣down dot␣down drydown dubdown Fiddown get␣down goedown got␣down gun␣down hagdown hoedown hoe-down hoe␣down jew␣down Jew␣down jot␣down key␣down kip␣down laydown lay-down lay␣down letdown let-down let␣down liedown lie-down lie␣down lowdown low-down man␣down mixdown mow␣down +872 words

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

dow Dow own

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

NWO

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

nowd

28 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

adown bownd daown downe Downe downs Downs Down's downy drown Drown D-Town endow gownd indow know'd nowds nowed n-word N-word owned pownd sdown sownd Woden woned wound wownd

18 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

DNW don Don DON don' Don. dow Dow Dwn. nod NOD now NOW NWO ODN owd own won

32 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Bown dawn Dawn doan Doan doan' Dohn doin doin' do␣in Donn doon dorn Dorn dowd Dowd Dowe dowf dowl dowp dows Dows gown lown Lown mown rown sown sow'n town Town Yown

9 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

don Don DON don' Don. dow Dow Dwn. own

4 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

daown drown Drown D-Town

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