Definitions For Down
noun
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft fine feathers
- Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
verb
- Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- Bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- Eat up completely, as with great appetite
- Drink down entirely
- Cause to come or go down
- Shoot at and force to come down
- From a higher to a lower place or position
- In a low position or place
- To or toward the ground or floor
- To cause (something) to fall to the ground
- To eat or drink (something) especially quickly
- To cause (a football) to be out of play
adjective
- Filled with melancholy and despondency
- Not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- Shut
- Lower than previously
- Understood perfectly
- Being put out by a strikeout
- Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- Becoming progressively lower
adjective
- Being or moving lower in position or less in some value
adverb
- Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- Away from a more central or a more northerly place
- Paid in cash at time of purchase
- In an inactive or inoperative state
- To a lower intensity
- From an earlier time
Is Down a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9
The word Down is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Down in a Sentence
- The land slopes down to the sea.
- She called down to her friends in the street below.
- They set the cake down on the table.
- Sweat dripped down her neck.
- The children ran down the hill.
- She fell down the stairs.
- The storm downed power lines throughout the city.
- A large number of downed power lines
- They were downing beers and watching the game on TV.
- The window shades were down.
- The candy is down on the bottom shelf.
- There was a pile of dirty clothes down on the floor.
Synonyms for Down
Antonyms for Down
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