Downed

Definition: Downed

Downed

Adjective

1. Made to fall (as by striking or cutting or shooting or by illness or exhaustion); "the felled boxer lay stretched on the canvas"; "felled trees covered the hillside"; "the downed oxen lay panting in the heat"; "a downed deer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "downed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)

Synonym: Downed

Crosswords: Downed

Books

• Born to Fly: The Untold Story of the Downed American Reconnaissance Plane (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Caged Eagles: Downed American Fighter Pilots 1940-1945 (reference)

• Escape and Evasion: 17 True Stories of Downed Pilots Who Made It Back (reference)

• Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground (reference)

• The Downed Animal Protection Act; Humane Methods of Poultry Slaughter Act; the Meat and Poultry Products Inspection Amendments of 1993 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Livestock of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Th (reference)

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A fire crew soaks a downed tree to insure the fire is out. Credit: USDA.

This photo is of a multi-phased project. Juniper was initially cut to get fuel on the ground and after a year of curing it was burned. It was part of a project to eliminate junipter in an aspen stand. Total project was about 100 acres. It was burned in late summer and was successful in meeting objectives of releasing aspen. Part of the project involved leaving some downed junipter as a barrier to keep elk out of areas where aspen sprouted. Credit: Steve Lent.

Black and white photo of loggers in woods with downed timber. Credit: Unknown.

A USS Boston (CA-69) OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane returns to the cruiser after rescuing a crewman of a downed TBF bomber, during raids on Japanese targets in the Hollandia Area, 21 April 1944. ARM2c W.R. Kesey is on the wing. AOM3c B.A. Kanitcer is in the rear cockpit. The OS2U's pilot is not identified. Credit: NAVY.

Off Truk with nine aviators on board, awaiting rescue by USS Tang (SS-306), 1 May 1944. The plane had landed inside Truk lagoon to recover downed airmen. Unable to take off with such a load, it then taxiied out to Tang, which was serving as lifeguard submarine during the 29 April-1 May carrier strikes on Truk. Credit: NAVY.

Takes aboard aircrewmen of downed aircraft and of a USS North Carolina (BB-55) OS2U floatplane that had landed to rescue them, off Truk on 1 May 1944. Tang was serving as lifeguard submarine during the 29 April-1 May carrier strikes on Truk. Credit: NAVY.

Afire after it was hit by gunfire from USS Tang (SS-306), off Truk, 1 May 1944. The plane had landed inside Truk lagoon to recover downed airmen. Unable to take off with a load of nine men, it then taxiied out to Tang, which was serving as lifeguard submarine during the 29 April-1 May carrier strikes on Truk. The plane was destroyed after its crew and passengers were removed. Credit: NAVY.

Hugh McElhenny, University of Washington fullback, being downed by Paul Baldwin, halfback for the University of California, after a two-yard gain in the second quarter of the game played at Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 22, 1949. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Civil Liberties

Russia

She stated that the death threats were associated with her September 20 article alleging that a government helicopter downed on September 17 in Groznyy had been shot down by federal forces, not rebels as alleged by authorities. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

On July 28, members of the NLA reportedly set fire to ethnic-Macedonian homes in Tearce to discourage returns of ethnic Macedonians to their villages; an NLA rebel commander claimed that the fires were caused by electrical problems from downed power lines. (references)

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

Ending with "downed": upside-downed.

Chinese 

击å€' (Downing, knockdown, knock-down, knockout). (various references)

German

abgeschossen (killed, launched). (various references)

Korean 

떨어뜨리ëŠ". (various references)

Manx

lhieggit (fallen, hewn, thrown, tumbled), er thalloo (aground), currit sheese, currit neose. (various references)

Pig Latin

ownedday.(various references)

Russian 

изношенный;инф)поврежденный. (various references)

Misspellings

"Downed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: donde, Doned, dowed, dowen, dowex, Downend, downes, howned. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dowed, endow, owned.

-2 letters: done, down, eddo, enow, node, owed, wend.

-3 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dow, end, eon, new, nod, now, odd, ode, one, owe, own, wed, wen, woe, won.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, ow, we, wo.

+1 letter: drowned, endowed, indowed, wounded.

+2 letters: disendow, disowned, downside, drownded, pondweed, swounded, unwooded, windowed, wondered.

+3 letters: decrowned, disendows, dowdiness, downfield, downgrade, downsides, downsized, downslide, downtrend, eiderdown, outwinded, pondweeds, reendowed, uncrowded, underwood, unwounded, windrowed.

+4 letters: candlewood, discrowned, disendowed, disendower, downgraded, downgrades, downloaded, downplayed, downscaled, downslides, downtrends, eiderdowns, hoodwinked, meadowland, pandowdies, underwoods, underworld, wonderland, woodenhead, woodlander.

+5 letters: candlewoods, crowdedness, disendowers, disendowing, dowdinesses, downhearted, downshifted, downtrodden, meadowlands, underworlds, wonderlands, woodenheads, woodlanders, wrongheaded.