Usually means: Lowering or reducing in status.
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  1. downing: Merriam-Webster
  2. Downing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Downing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Downing, downing: Wordnik
  6. downing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Downing, downing: Wiktionary
  8. Downing: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Downing, downing: Dictionary.com
  10. downing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Downing (surname), Downing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Downing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Downing: Rhymezone
  14. Downing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. downing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. downing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Downing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Downing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downing: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Downing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Downing)

▸ noun:  An occasion on which something is downed.
▸ noun:  A defeat.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A city in Missouri.
▸ noun:  A village in Wisconsin.
▸ noun:  (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Downing College, Cambridge..

Similar:
pull down, declining, Falling, pour down, downward, shoot down, knock down, toss off, go through, descending, more...

Opposite:
uplifting, elevating, raising, boosting

Types:
dandelion, clover, alfalfa, orchard grass, ryegrass, fescue, bluegrass, bentgrass, more...

Phrases:
Downing Street, thomas downing, downing tools, Andrew Jackson Downing, downing and dirty, more...

Adjectives:
self, soviet, abbot, late, old, simek, young, original, famous, sun, american

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     gunmetal, more...



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Similar:
pull down, declining, Falling, pour down, downward, shoot down, knock down, toss off, go through, descending, more...

Opposite:
uplifting, elevating, raising, boosting

Types:
dandelion, clover, alfalfa, orchard grass, ryegrass, fescue, bluegrass, bentgrass, more...

Phrases:
Downing Street, thomas downing, downing tools, Andrew Jackson Downing, downing and dirty, downing on luck, downing andrew jackson, 10 Downing Street, K. K. Downing, 11 Downing Street, more...

Adjectives:
self, soviet, abbot, late, old, simek, young, original, famous, sun, american

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     gunmetal, more...



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