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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Down \Down\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Downed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Downing}.]
To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to
overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
[Archaic or Colloq.] "To down proud hearts." --Sir P. Sidney.
[1913 Webster]
I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the
wits, once at our house. --Madame
D'Arblay.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
downed \downed\ adj.
1. knocked down.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (Football) touched to the ground, thus ending the play; --
of a football.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
downed
adj : made to fall (as by striking or cutting or shooting or by
illness or exhaustion); "the felled boxer lay stretched
on the canvas"; "felled trees covered the hillside";
"the downed oxen lay panting in the heat"; "a downed
deer" [syn: {felled}] [ant: {unfelled}]
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