Dictionary Entry
To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
In a Sentence
“A single rifle shot downed the mighty beast.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
street downing. downingcollege downingdowning georgedowning jackson
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Poetry examples for “downing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sir George Downing. — ^Formerly Okeys
little Chaplain ; a great promoter of the
Read full poem →marches of the Brown Women--from Scotland, Wales, Devon and Norfolk
to London, to some goal in Downing Street or Whitehall, some
door-step which already had every inch of its space covered by
Read full poem →I am afraid I can’t take him with me to
Downing Street. It is not the Prime Minister's
day for seeing the unemployed.