All downs synonyms
down
D d verb downs
- go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- strand — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- sag — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
- prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
- slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- feed — to give a fee to.
- skid — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
- eat up — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- absorb — If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in.
- ingest — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
- guzzle — South Midland and Southern U.S. gozzle.
- swallow — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- nose-dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
- disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
- transcend — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- unnerve — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
- outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- outmaneuver — to outwit, defeat, or frustrate by maneuvering.
- materialize — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- outfox — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- go on — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- appear — If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- arise — If a situation or problem arises, it begins to exist or people start to become aware of it.
- wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
noun downs
- wig — an artificial covering of hair for all or most of the head, of either synthetic or natural hair, worn to be stylish or more attractive.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- grass — Günter (Wilhelm) [goo n-ter wil-helm;; German gyn-tuh r vil-helm] /ˈgʊn tər ˈwɪl hɛlm;; German ˈgün tər ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1927–2015, German novelist, poet, and playwright.
- haircut — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- mane — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.