down in WordNet English dictionary

1. drink down entirely
   "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
   toss off  pop  bolt down  belt down  pour down  down  drink down  kill 
   
2. eat immoderately
   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
   devour  down  consume  go through 
   
3. 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"
   down  knock down  cut down  push down  pull down 
   
4. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
   "refine one's style of writing"
   polish  refine  fine-tune  down 
   
5. bring down or defeat (an opponent)
   down 
   
6. shoot at and force to come down
   "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
   down  shoot down  land 
   

1. 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"
   gloomy  grim  blue  depressed  dispirited  down  downcast  downhearted  down in the mouth  low  low-spirited 
   
2. lower than previously
   "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
   depressed  down 
   
3. 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"
   down 
   
4. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
   "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
   down  downward 
   
5. becoming progressively lower
   "the down trend in the real estate market"
   down 
   
6. not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
   "we can't work because the computer is down"
   down 
   
7. shut
   "the shades were down"
   down 
   
8. being put out by a strikeout
   "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
   down 
   
9. understood perfectly
   "had his algebra problems down"
   down  down pat  mastered 
   

1. (American football) a complete play to advance the football
   "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
   down 
   
2. soft fine feathers
   down  down feather 
   
3. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
   down  pile 
   
4. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
   down 
   

1. 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"
   down  downwards  downward  downwardly  down  downwards  downward  downwardly 
   
2. 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"
   down  down 
   
3. paid in cash at time of purchase
   "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
   down  down 
   
4. in an inactive or inoperative state
   "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
   down  down 
   
5. to a lower intensity
   "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
   down  down 
   
6. from an earlier time
   "the story was passed down from father to son"
   down  down