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downed

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for downed.

Editorial note

In the first gulf war more than 2 dozen Iraqi aircraft were downed in air to air engagements.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

That has been brought down, usually by force.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

That has been brought down, usually by force.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for downed.

Example sentences

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In the first gulf war more than 2 dozen Iraqi aircraft were downed in air to air engagements.

2

This should have been a clear case, given that the downed drone was reportedly never over the neighbor's property.

3

Putin has started Russia-Ukraine war in February and Russian troops has downed MH17 using Russian AA complex.

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That way, a single natural disaster can't bring down the power grid; no hurricane or cloudy month or downed plant.

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Or, in a more extreme case, the medical history of the Germanwings pilot who is believed to have downed his plane.

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Maybe it is charged from lightning, a downed power line, friction in a pipe, etc.

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I mean, how many times have you fixed a downed server through no fault of your own to then have your head blown off by a client?

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But yes, it's good progress from those water-downed coffee people drink at home (still better than what you mostly drink in the U.

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Microsoft are refusing to help us with our downed servers because we don't have a support contract.

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MH17 was downed by the shrapnel from the missile, not the shockwave.

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You typically have a small search space with a downed aircraft, and the black box announces itself acoustically underwater for up to 30 days.

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How do you explain a downed stealth helicopter in Abbottabad then?

Quote examples

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"Downed power lines on Main Street" means different things depending on the poster's geography.

2

We've eliminated the possibility of any data exfiltration (all the software vulnerabilities in the world can't transmit on a downed interface), but that does not mean that the encryption itself is not defeated in some way by the existence of a "master key" or some other flaw that allows an attacker to access the data offline.

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I actually find association football, basketball, and baseball to be excruciatingly boring, but love watching track and field) but there's more going on than the actual "play." When the ball is downed, there are 40 seconds for the following to happen: 1.

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Slightly OT: By chance I read the news about MH17 in the very first minutes of its disappearance from the radar and minutes later I saw news about Strelkov's tweeter account publishing several tweets about a downed "Ukrainian plane" and pictures with smoke in Torez area, tweets which later disappeared completely.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use downed in a sentence?

In the first gulf war more than 2 dozen Iraqi aircraft were downed in air to air engagements.

What does downed mean?

That has been brought down, usually by force.

What part of speech is downed?

downed is commonly used as adjective.