v
To alight, to dismount or get down from.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
v
To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.
v
(intransitive, rare, obsolete) To fall upon; fall.
v
(mechanical engineering, of a suspension or similar device) To strike the lower mechanical stop and lose the ability to buffer further downward motion.
v
(transitive) To acknowledge or admit (a successful outcome, etc.).
v
(idiomatic, sometimes followed by from) To abandon, withdraw from, or soften a previously expressed opinion, argument, etc.
v
(intransitive) To decrease.
v
To reach by moving down or reducing.
v
To leave at a dead drop for someone else to retrieve.
adj
Having power, or tending, to cast down.
v
(obsolete) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
v
to visit in large numbers
v
(obsolete) To push downwards with force
v
(intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
v
(intransitive) To come down; to descend.
v
(transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
adj
(idiomatic) Temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated.
v
(transitive) To draw downward or down.
v
(transitive) To force downward without breaking.
n
Any force (produced by aerodynamics or gravity etc) that acts downwards
adv
In a downward direction
adj
(geology) Having, or being, a downthrow
v
(transitive) to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate.
v
To initiate a drawdown (withdrawal of equipment, supplies, etc., potentially to provide it to another party).
v
(Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive, of companions) To lose contact, to lose one's friendship or closeness.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
v
(of sound, electronic signal, etc.) To be lost or momentarily interrupted.
adj
(of a place or facility) Allowing people to drop in; that is, to visit casually, without an appointment.
n
A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off.
v
(intransitive) To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say.
v
(dialect, intransitive) To pass out.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
v
(transitive) To knock down or lay low.
v
(transitive) To record in writing.
v
(intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.
v
(transitive) To like less.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
v
(transitive) To restrain or control (a sound).
v
(transitive) To allow to descend.
v
(archaic) To cause to fall or descend; to lower.
adj
Alternative form of look-down, shoot-down [Describing a phased-array radar powerful enough to pick aircraft out of ground clutter from high altitude.]
v
Alternative form of take down a notch [(transitive, idiomatic, of a person or organization) To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.]
v
to ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail
n
(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
v
(transitive, electronics) To reduce a signal.
v
(intransitive) To move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.
v
(transitive) To cause to fall to the floor
n
(biology) A technique by which a protein is brought down in a test tube by another.
v
To push something such that it falls.
v
(idiomatic) To stop people from enjoying an activity.
n
The down on cotton, etc.
v
(transitive, Britain, business) To reduce by selling.
v
(transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
n
The act of setting down something or someone.
v
(transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
v
(of a rotating body) To reduce its speed of rotation.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To fall; be thrown down.
n
A trust-building exercise in which someone lets themselves fall without trying to stop it, relying on another person or people to catch them.
v
To rise from a crouched position.
v
(intransitive) To undergo a pull from the underside.
v
(transitive) To bring back down (something previously hoisted).
v
(transitive, vexillology) To lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.
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