DOING DOWN Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

doing down

verb

present participle of do down, British

as in overcoming

to achieve a victory over you'll do her down at cards, but she'll probably win at croquet

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That included overcoming injuries to Jose Ramirez, Angel Martínez and rookie Chase DeLauter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
The researchers found that the material could undergo helicity-independent magnetization reversal, overcoming a major constraint of earlier approaches.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of overcoming

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In Seattle, district physical education manager Lori Dunn sees learning to ride a bike as more than simply mastering a recreational skill.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Extending lifespan dramatically would require mastering many of them simultaneously.

— Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of mastering

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Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.

— Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Martha and her mother Maria Alberto Gonzalez and his wife, Catalina Gonzalez, remember taking two buses and a train from their home on the North Side to get to the restaurant in the late 1960s.

— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of taking

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Nigeria is on track to complete a 90,000 km fiber optic cable network in three years, a government minister said, beating an initial timeline for the project backed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
OpenAI earlier this month released GPT-6 Astra, which has sometimes been modestly beating Opus 5 in benchmarks and user sentiment.

— Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of beating

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But when her character — saucy British writer Constance Clavinger — turns out to be a handful (getting drunk at the airport bar, for starters), Homer struggles to get her to the school on time.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
As a girl growing up in the 1970s, Griffin recalls how her parents and other neighbors in the two-street patch of homes did not let their children play at the nearby Fannie Robinson Park after some of them started developing rashes or getting sick.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of getting

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Carbon dating puts the wall somewhere between 200 BCE and 10 BCE, right around the period when Rome was conquering Gaul.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Social media commentary on Heated Rivalry exploded after the series launch, conquering my Facebook page like no other pop culture phenomenon before it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of conquering

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