Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Downed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the
wits, once at our house. --Madame
D'Arblay.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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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