0 present participle of down
3 to defeat someone, especially in sport:
These are the folks who learn to take notes at important meetings while downing lunch simultaneously.
They were not to have the luxury of downing tools for a wake or a fair; nor of working for three days in order to drink for four.
Downing (1977) suggested that adults may interpret the relation underlying compounds as one of comparison only as a fall-back interpretation, if no other interpretation is available.
Downing (2000) has shown that when an object is held in working memory, attention is diverted to that object if it appears in a visual display.
Downing presented this argument in conversation.
We are not talking about striking or direct action or downing tools.
In taking that choice they may carry it through to the point of downing tools and walking out, unless their wishes are acceded to.
I should not like anybody to think that we were downing those who have a sense of adventure.
