to down

Fire at a plane or missile so it falls to the ground

Use force to make someone or something fall to the ground

To shoot someone, often causing serious harm or death

To destroy a building so it is level with the ground

To cause something to fall, often by cutting it down

Move something or someone from a higher to a lower place, for example land an aircraft

To make a person or thing fall to the ground, often by force

To knock someone to the ground with force

Cause someone to fall, become sick, or die suddenly

To hit and pass over a person or animal with a vehicle

To bring something or someone down from a higher place

To force something down by hitting it hard

An act of lifting something to a higher position

Moving both ways along the whole length of something

At a time in the future

In your real feelings or beliefs that you do not show

At some point in the future

Avoid getting noticed to stay out of trouble

Very easily and much better than others

A repeated movement where both feet leave the ground to show excitement

Remembering happy or important times from the past

Not decided until the very last moment before a deadline

Tell people firmly what they must do

To betray someone to get something for yourself

Learned so well you can do it without thinking

Relax and enjoy yourself after being serious or busy

Having bad luck, often with money

Won or achieved very easily without trying hard

Prepare for trouble by taking steps to stay safe

Feeling sad and low

To continue until the last possible moment while the result is not known

Reach a point where the result is not decided until the last moment

Completely unable to move or continue because of extreme tiredness

Sick with the flu and unable to go out

To make an audience clap and cheer loudly

To openly challenge someone in front of others

Poor and without a home or money

To suddenly speak angrily and criticize someone for a small mistake

Start talking about the most important details

Make someone feel less proud by criticizing or embarrassing them

When things become very difficult and you must act

At a later time

To start dealing with the most important details

Found unprepared and embarrassed when something unexpected happens

Money people waste when they make a bad choice

Very tired and weighed down by too much work or worry

Able to get better after a setback

Completely right for someone or something

Having too much work or responsibility to manage

Make someone feel a sudden strong fear or excitement

Cause someone to feel a sudden strong fear or excitement

Feeling sad or unhappy

To treat someone badly when they already have problems

A sudden feeling of fear or excitement that moves along your back

To take firm action to punish someone

Aware of and interested in what young people like

Completely ruined or wasted and no longer useful

To stop acting like you are better than other people

Doing something that leads nowhere useful

To start behaving in a bad or dangerous way that harms your life

Looking old and in poor condition because of poverty

Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them

Help someone stop being sad and start smiling

To vomit into a toilet after drinking too much

Make a party very lively and exciting

Move from standing into a chair or onto the ground

To lower something from your hands onto a surface

To move or act more slowly

To become less angry, excited, or upset

Stop a machine, business, or system from working

To depend on the main point

To climb down from a horse or similar animal

To depend on one main thing

To become less in amount, size, or value

To lose a competition or fight

Refuse an offer, invitation, or request

Suddenly move from a standing position to the ground or a lower level

To become lower, for example temperature or prices

To put your body flat on a bed to rest or sleep

Put information on paper to help you remember it later

To separate something into smaller parts to explain or study it

To search for someone or something until you find them

Make someone feel disappointed by not doing what you promised

Fire at a plane or missile so it falls to the ground

To stop working because of a problem

Make the sound or heat from something lower, for example music

Help someone into a seat by showing or guiding them

To stop working for a short time

Move something slowly from a higher to a lower position

To start doing work or a task seriously

To start living a quiet, steady life by having a regular job or a family

Give up an important job so someone else can take over

Search for and find someone or something after a lot of effort

To say cruel things to make people think less of someone

To fall from the sky, as rain, snow, or ash

Make a list of choices smaller until only a few remain

To make a leader or government lose power

To destroy a building or other structure completely

To stop doing a job, duty or action after someone tells you to

To destroy a building or object completely by fire

To write something so you do not forget it

Agree with and support an idea or plan

To lose control of your feelings and cry or collapse

To stop insisting because others oppose you

To crouch or kneel down to a lower position

To stop operating permanently, like a shop or company

To kill an animal to stop its suffering

To become ill with a disease like a cold

Use force to make someone or something fall to the ground

To be remembered for something important by many people

Make an amount or level lower

To make someone feel sad or discouraged

To sink into water, like a boat that hits something

Come to the main point or idea

To move below the horizon, like the sun at sunset

Officially set a rule or law that people must follow

To put something or someone down gently on a surface

To make something smaller in amount or number

To take strong action to stop illegal or wrong behavior

Make a building or wall fall down suddenly

To become quiet and calm after being excited

To make someone feel unimportant by saying bad things about them

Think you are better than someone and treat them as less important

To try harder to continue something even when people disagree or it is risky

To write something down on paper or a screen

To shoot someone, often causing serious harm or death

Cause a big sudden change that leaves people confused

Declare a law or rule no longer valid

With the front side turned down toward a surface

To make a tree or plant fall by cutting it at the base

Give objects, knowledge, or traditions to younger people in your family

Give traditions, stories, or things to younger family members

To remove something that is fixed or standing, for example stage equipment

To become less strong or loud over time

To land on the ground after a flight

To leave people or things at a place from a vehicle

To make something less strong, for example a sound, color or feeling

To move something from a high place to a lower place

With the top where the bottom usually is

A first payment you make when you buy something and pay the rest in later payments

A quick search of someone's clothes by touching to find hidden items

A person who is practical and sensible in a friendly, not showy way

Leaving a position of authority or responsibility

Turned so the top is where the bottom normally is

A person who is injured or unable to move

In very poor condition and not working because of age or neglect

A formal meal or meeting where people sit together to talk

A condition present at birth caused by an extra chromosome that makes learning harder and gives typical physical features

A used piece of clothing or item given from one person to another

Something that is less strong or useful because people change it to avoid problems

An act of completely taking down a building so it no longer exists

A shirt or collar with the ends fastened by buttons

A list of choices that appears below when you click it

A remark that makes someone feel small or embarrassed

A shirt with collar points that fasten down with buttons

A list of options that appears below a menu item so you can choose one

To move something like curtains or equipment down to a lower place

A reduction in the value of something a company owns to show it is now worth less

A temporary pause in military activity to let troops rest and stop being on alert

Very poor and without money, a job, or a home

Soft fine feathers from under a goose used as warm filling

A decrease in amount or level, for example moving to a lower job

Workers stay at their workplace and refuse to work until demands are met

Has only the basic parts and no extra features

A cake you bake with fruit on the bottom then flip so it sits on top

Workers who stay in their workplace and refuse to leave until the employer meets their demands

True information about something often not widely known

A severe scolding from someone in charge, often in front of other people

A strong angry talk that tells someone they did something wrong

A very soft feather under a bird's outer feathers that keeps the bird warm

A person with no money, job, or home

Carrying a heavy load like bags or boxes

A device like a transformer that lowers electrical voltage

Describing clothing or objects that have been used and are given to someone else

A dress with a collar and buttons down the front

A shirt whose collar has buttons that keep it in place

An act of saying you were wrong or changing your view

A person from Maine, often from the eastern coast

A very small particle inside protons and neutrons with an electric charge of minus one third

A bow movement from the part near your hand toward the tip when playing a string instrument

Further down on the page below the current section

Soft fine feathers from a duck used to fill warm bedding and clothing

Very violent and intense, often about a fight or argument

A large British sheep with a dark face and a thick coat that people keep for meat and wool

Owned before and then given or sold to another person

Older family members give things like clothes or recipes to younger ones

A rule that limits how much something can rise

A pile where the last item put on is the first taken off

A list where the last item added is the first removed

A way to store items so the last one added is the first taken out

A storage where the last thing put in comes out first, like a pile of plates

A list where the last thing you put in comes out first

Shows that something is completely bad

A very soft wool fabric used for baby clothes

Soft fine feathers under a swan's outer feathers used to fill clothes or bedding

Money kept to pay for a planned new project or a large cost

A device that lowers high electric voltage so appliances work safely