DOWN WITH

Definition: DOWN WITH

DOWN WITH

1. Take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command. ``Down with the palace; fire it.'' --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Content

Be tolerated; go down, go down well, go down with; do; be OK.

Payment

Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down.

Peace

Phrase: the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"; "they make a desert and they call it peace".

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: DOWN WITH

The sanctuary looks like its been hosed down with Pepto Bismol (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling)

Springfield has come down with a fever: football fever (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie, they're loaded down with fat men and iron (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts)

So you're not down with the things he does, but you're still down with him (Save the Last Dance; writing credit: Duane Adler)

I have flocks of angels in my head and that'll beat you down with their wings (The Caveman's Valentine; writing credit: George Dawes Green)

'Cause if I fall you're going down with me (If I Fall You're Going Down With Me; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

I wanna be down I wanna be down with you (I Wanna Be Down; performing artist: Brandy)

So I gotta be down with the hood team (Gangsta's Paradise; performing artist: Coolio)

Bitch quit talkin, crip walk if you down with the set (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Down with the moral majority (Minority; performing artist: Green Day)

Down with Love (2003)

Lie Down with Dogs (1995)

Goin' Down with Amber (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Albert, King of the Belgians in the Great War: His Military Activities and Experiences Set Down With His Approval (reference)

• Lie Down With Lions (reference)

• Lay Down With Lions: Year-Of-The-Scarab Trilogy, Book Two (reference)

• Down With Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (reference)

• Lay Down With Dogs: The Story of Hugh Otis Bynum and the Scottsboro First Monday Bombing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Old log cabin falling down with tall grass in the foreground. Credit: Unknown.

A frightened farmer carries his wife, stricken down with tetanus, to the People's Health Centre in Savar ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Harrison..

Jack Hove down with a Grog Blossom Fever. / G.M. Woodward delin. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Loaded Down -- Seaman Leroy Kellam ... weighted down with belts of 20 millimeter cannon ammunition, hustles up the flight deck of USS Essex to load a waiting Banshee fighter. These same shells were spitting death at the Communists in North Korea a short time after this picture was taken." Photograph and caption were released by Commander, Naval Forces, Far East under date of 12 October 1951. Credit: NAVY.

Colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862, entitled "The Sinking of the 'Cumberland' by the Iron Clad 'Merrimac', off Newport News, Va., March 8th 1862. 'Cumberland' went down with all her Flags flying: -- destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris calling to his crew 'Given them a Broadside boys, as she goes'.". Credit: NAVY.

Down with the traitors serpent flag. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pleasant View township comes down with Simon B. Tracey for County Treasurer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Down with Cleveland and Low. Credit: Library of Congress.

Magazines weighted down with pistols. Drugstore, Gonzales, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Somewhere in Central Africa. No, children, that is not one of those model planes you made for spotters to practice on, or aerial gunners to shoot down with BBs. This is the African version, complete with flags, of the Royal Air Force consolidated-built Li. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Down with the pope

So down with your breeches And out with your bum.

She tried to bite his palm, but he cupped it out over her mouth, and he held her down with his other arm.

And to this purpose several packthreads were let down with small weights at the bottom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Within 2 weeks about half the children came down with chickenpox. (references)

Non-cardiac syncope is treated acutely by lying down with the legs elevated. (references)

In ancient times stroke was called apoplexy,* a general term that physicians applied to anyone suddenly struck down with paralysis. (references)

Economic History

Brunei Darussalam

An attempt in 1962 to introduce a partially elected legislative body with limited powers was abandoned after the opposition political party, Partai Rakyat Brunei, launched an armed uprising, which the government put down with the help of British forces. (references)

Australia

Unfortunately, the post-GST slump in construction activity was substantially larger than the pre-GST boom, and as a result the construction sector recorded a contraction over CY 2000 of 24 percent; signs of recovery only began to emerge in early 2001. This fall was large enough to drag the overall GDP figure down with it, disguising what was otherwise a far more moderate slowdown in domestic economic activity over the course of 2000. Service sectors generally recorded strong growth over the year (e.g. communications, 8 percent; property/business services 9 percent, finance services 5 percent) as did mining (10 percent), metal products (7 percent) and non-metallic mineral products (24 percent). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "DOWN WITH": be down with flu ♦ be down with influenza ♦ come down with ♦ come down with a run ♦ come down with smth. ♦ come down with the flu ♦ cut down with an axe ♦ down with ..! ♦ down with flu ♦ down with influenza ♦ Down with the dust ♦ down with the tyrant! ♦ down with traitors! ♦ down with your money ♦ go down with ♦ go down with flags flying ♦ go down with flu ♦ if down with you! ♦ lay down with ♦ load down with ♦ sail down with the wind ♦ the lion lies down with the lamb ♦ wash down with. Additional references.

Albanian

sëmurem (become ill, come down with, fall ill, fall sick, get ill, grow sickly, not to be taken, take to one's bed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прокарвам залък с (wash down with). (various references)

Chinese 

病�' (be down with an illness, be laid up), 縋 (let down with a rope), �"�澡 (rub oneself down with a wet towel, take a sponge bath). (various references)

Czech

složit se s chřipkou (go down with flu), pryè se zrádci (down with traitors), onemocnìt èím (come down with smth.). (various references)

Finnish

romahtaa (come down with a crash, crash down, tumble down), jysähtää (bump, fall down with a thud, thump). (various references)

French

couler pavillon haut (go down with flags flying), attraper la grippe (go down with flu). (various references)

German

nieder mit .. (down with ..), kriegen (catch, come by, come down with, get, get off, have, land, make war, obtain, pick up, throw, wage war), aufladen (boost, burden, burden with, charge, load, load down with, load on, load up, recharge, saddle with, supercharge, to load up, upload), an Grippe erkrankt (down with influenza). (various references)

Greek 

αρρωσταίνω (come down with, go down with, sicken). (various references)

Hungarian

megfázással fekszik (to be down with a cold). (various references)

Italian

coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, drape, hold, lay down with, lay over, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, smother, suffuse, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

金縛りになっている (to be bound hand and foot, to be tied down with money). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かなしばりになっている (to be bound hand and foot, to be tied down with money). (various references)

Pig Latin

ownday ithway.(various references)

Romanian

jos cu. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oboleti (catch, come down with, fall ill, fall sick, get sick). (various references)

Spanish

enfermar de (come down with), contraer (acquire, come down with, contract, enter into, shorten, shrink), caer enfermo de (come down with), apoquinar (come across with, come down with, kick in). (various references)

Turkish

yatağa düşmek (be laid up with, be taken ill, come down with, fall, fall ill, go down, take ill, take to one's bed), nedeniyle hastalanmak (come down with), gripten yatmak (be down with flu, be down with influenza), gripten yatağa düşmüş (down and out wit flu, down with flu, down with influenza), balta ile kesmek (chop, cut down with an axe, hew, hew down). (various references)

Ukrainian

захворати (come down with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: window.

-3 letters: dhoti, indow, tondi, widow, width.

-4 letters: dhow, dint, doit, doth, down, hind, hint, into, nodi, nowt, thin, thio, town, twin, whid, whin, whit, wind, wino, with, wont.

-5 letters: din, dit, don, dot, dow, hid, hin, hit, hod, hon, hot, how, ion, nit, nod, noh, not, now, nth, own, tho, tin, tod, ton.

+1 letter: windthrow.

+2 letters: windthrows.