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Downer   /dˈaʊnər/   Listen
Downer

noun
1.
A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person.  Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug.


Down

adjective
1.
Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.  "The moon is down" , "Our team is down by a run" , "Down by a pawn" , "The stock market is down today"  Antonym: up.
2.
Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.  Synonym: downward.  "The downward course of the stream"
3.
Becoming progressively lower.
4.
Being put out by a strikeout.
5.
Understood perfectly.  Synonyms: down pat, mastered.
6.
Lower than previously.  Synonym: depressed.  "Prices are down"
7.
Shut.
8.
Not functioning (temporarily or permanently).
9.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.  "Gloomy predictions" , "A gloomy silence" , "Took a grim view of the economy" , "The darkening mood" , "Lonely and blue in a strange city" , "Depressed by the loss of his job" , "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face" , "Downcast after his defeat" , "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"



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"Downer" Quotes from Famous Books



... were there special women's exhibits distinct from those of men. In the United States section valuable and important displays were made by Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Woman's College of Baltimore, Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Pratt Institute (New York), Milwaukee-Downer College (Milwaukee), and several lesser women's colleges, while in the English section a wonderfully interesting showing of women's activity in "higher education" was made by the Oxford Association ...
— Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission • Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
... feathery tribe. When five miles were called, the men were still shoulder to shoulder. At about six miles The Gasper put on a tremendous spirt to leave the men behind and establish himself at the turning-point at the entrance of the village. He afterwards declared that he received a mental knock-downer on taking his station and facing about, to find Bright Chanticleer close in upon him, and Rossius steaming up like a locomotive. The Bantam rounded first; Rossius rounded wide; and from that moment the Bantam steadily shot ahead. Though both were breathed at the town, the Bantam quickly ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields


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