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Synonyms for down

along

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  • along
  • to the other end of
  • throughout the length of
  • from one end to the other of

throughout

downwards

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not working

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fluff

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have a down on something or someone

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  • be antagonistic or hostile to
  • be set against
  • have it in for
  • be anti
  • be prejudiced against
  • be contra
  • bear a grudge towards
  • feel ill will towards
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Synonyms for down

characterized by reduced economic activity

suffering from or affected with an illness

a sudden drop to a lower condition or status

to swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts

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Synonyms for down

(American football) a complete play to advance the football

English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

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eat immoderately

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bring down or defeat (an opponent)

shoot at and force to come down

cause to come or go down

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

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extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

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becoming progressively lower

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being put out by a strikeout

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understood perfectly

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lower than previously

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shut

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not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

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spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

away from a more central or a more northerly place

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to a lower intensity

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I had slidden down the balusters when I was a boy, and thought nothing of it, but to slide down the balusters in a railway-train is a thing to make one's flesh creep.
Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up.
`Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
"Lie down, darling; lie down, my pet," said the countess, softly touching Natasha's shoulders.
"From the grass roots down," he muttered in an awestricken voice, as he swung his pick into the yielding surface.
Then he dropped down and went to sleep again; but what he had been saying give me the very idea I wanted.
At that moment the crowd forced their way into the house, and Hugh--it was impossible to see by what means, in such a concourse--fell headlong down.
I heard the crackle of a dry twig, and looking down saw my first Fire-Man.
The thin cord dangling down the face of the brown cliff seemed from above to reach little more than half-way down it.
'Just see what a fine flag!' said Vasili Andreevich, admiring his handiwork and letting himself down into the sledge.
Down below there was a noise of cracking nuts and nibbling; and then the fat squirrel voice and the thin squirrel voice sang--
Then they saw her stoop down, and once more with that almost superhuman strength which seemed to belong to her for those few moments, she lifted the strange object who lay cowering there, high above her head.
When Mowgli left the wolf's cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock, he went down to the plowed lands where the villagers lived, but he would not stop there because it was too near to the jungle, and he knew that he had made at least one bad enemy at the Council.
"I could never have the courage to float down there."
Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down. And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it.