· soft fine feathers

Synonym(s): down_feather

Hypernym(s): feather, plume, plumage

· (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

Hypernym(s): turn, play

· English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

Synonym(s): Down, John_L._H._Down

· (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

Hypernym(s): highland, upland

· fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

Synonym(s): pile

Hypernym(s): hair

· drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

Synonym(s): toss_off, pop, bolt_down, belt_down, pour_down, drink_down, kill

Hypernym(s): drink, imbibe

· eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

Synonym(s): devour, demolish, consume, go_through

Hypernym(s): eat_up, finish, polish_off

· bring down or defeat (an opponent)

Hypernym(s): get_the_better_of, overcome, defeat

· shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

Synonym(s): shoot_down, land

· cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

Synonym(s): knock_down, cut_down, push_down, pull_down

Hypernym(s): strike

· improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

Synonym(s): polish, refine, fine-tune

Hypernym(s): better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate

· being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

Antonym(s): up

· extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"

Synonym(s): downward

· becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"

· being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

· understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

Synonym(s): down_pat, mastered

· lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

Synonym(s): depressed

· shut; "the shades were down"

· not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"

· filled with melancholy and despondency; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

Synonym(s): gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, down_in_the_mouth, low, low-spirited

· spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"

Synonym(s): downwards, downward, downwardly

Antonym(s): upwardly, upward, upwards, up

· away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"

Antonym(s): up

· paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

· from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"

· to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

Antonym(s): up

· in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"