(transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place. / (cricket) To bowl. / (transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term.

Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits. / Produced, controlled, or directed by those at the top of the hierarchy.

To cause (someone) physical or mental fatigue. / To eventually persuade or defeat (someone) through persistent effort. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wear, down.

plural of down payment

(transitive) To treat or polish with sandpaper.

(countable) A disappointment or anticlimax. / (countable, uncountable) The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.

(idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic. / (idiomatic) Ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill.

(idiomatic) To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to. / (idiomatic) To withdraw from a commitment or position.

(transitive) To close, terminate, or end. / (ergative) To turn off or stop. / (figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy. / (transitive) To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company. / (slang, transitive) Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman.