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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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