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▸ adjective:  Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
▸ adjective:  Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.
▸ adjective:  Of a thing: directed downwards.
▸ adjective:  (figurative):
▸ adjective:  Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
▸ adjective:  Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.
▸ noun:  (geology, obsolete) Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”)
▸ noun:  (countable) An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.
▸ noun:  (countable, archaic)
▸ noun:  An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.
▸ noun:  (countable, computing) A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.
▸ noun:  (countable, mining, chiefly attributive) A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
▸ verb:  To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
▸ verb:  To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).
▸ verb:  To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).
▸ verb:  (figurative) To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.
▸ verb:  (computing) To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.
▸ verb:  (Scotland) To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.

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