done down

past participle of do down, British

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Recent Examples of done down But he's got 76 strikeouts in 52 1/3 innings, and Guerrero was demonstrating the entire club's belief that the righty can get the job done down the stretch. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for done down
Verb
  • Given that the Touch Bar is no more, this stumbling block was never satisfactorily overcome.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Reclaiming Progress Park required overcoming years of lived experience.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Fishlock, Wales’s all-time leading scorer, scored the winner in the 85th minute as the Reign defeated Bay FC 3-2 Saturday night at PayPal Park, handing Bay another frustrating home loss.
    Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • In an intense and emotional main event, Oba Femi defeated Brock Lesnar in Brock’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota in their third match inside Hell in a Cell.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Powers-Johnson, who’d taken all the starting reps to this point, assumed his position for the first team period.
    Sam Warren, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Coming out with any new car can typically cost a major company around $2 billion, but the research and development to bring such an inexpensive EV to the market has taken much more than that.
    Michael Ballaban, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • During the video, a person wearing a gorilla suit walked directly through the scene, stopped, beat their chest, and walked away.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Towa might not share her girlfriend’s passion for musicals, but that hasn’t stopped Rapp from dragging her to them anyway.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For her latest case, Bridgette is dispatched to the remote East Texas town of Whisper Creek, where a long-dormant serial killer known as The Flower King has resurfaced.
    William Earl, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Purists will scoff at the way that most of the old-school cast is dispatched en masse instead of by the traditional one-kill-scene-at-a-time method.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Snail Mucin When K-beauty broke into the US market in 2016, snail mucin was the introductory ingredient that got everyone hooked.
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2026
  • On Monday, Baltimore went and got Forret back by trading reliever Tyler Wells to the Rays.
    David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Leite made 5 of 12 shots with two 3-pointers and 15 of 17 free throws for Portland (11-19), which beat the Tempo 99-80 in Toronto on May 23 in the first matchup between the expansion teams.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Sparks beat the Lynx for the first time in three tries this season.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The 42-year-old conquered the Via Alpina, which involves traversing a vast European alpine region stretching east to west from Italy, through Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and finally France and Monaco.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Man’s Best Friend has previously conquered both Billboard charts.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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“Done down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/done%20down. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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