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• dow
  dow

  verb (used without object)

  to be able.
• Dow
  Dow

  noun

  none the Dow or the Dow Jones a shortened form of Dow Jones average.
• Dow.
  Dow.

  abbreviation

  dowager.

dow

¹ American  

[dau, doh] / daʊ, doʊ /

verb (used without object)

Scot. and North England.

dowed, dought, dowing

1. to be able.

2. to thrive; prosper; do well.

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Dow ² American  

[dau] / daʊ /

noun

1. none the Dow or the Dow Jones a shortened form of Dow Jones average.

   The Dow is up nearly 8,400 points from its record low on February 12.

   The 7 percent drop in the Dow Jones was a harbinger of the precipice on which the economy was then hanging.

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Dow ³ American  

[dau] / daʊ /

noun

1. Charles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.

2. Gerrard Dou, Gerard.

3. Herbert Henry, 1866–1930, U.S. chemist, inventor, and industrialist.

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Dow. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. dowager.

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Dow British  

/ daʊ, dɔu /

noun

1. See Dou

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Etymology

Origin of dow

before 900; Middle English dowen, doghen, Old English dugan to be worthy; cognate with German taugen; cf. doughty

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Example Sentences

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dow Dow Dow. dought dowed

Two years ago, the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda was also forced to step dow n in a bribery scandal connected to vote-buying involving IOC members.

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021

The heat from the radiator beneath the win- dow made her damp clothes hot and uncomfortable.

From The Verge ● Jun. 17, 2018

The broader market however was weighed dow n by losses in industrial, financial and technology stocks.

From Time ● Oct. 17, 2017

On the living-room mantel is a female statuette from a drugstore win dow.

From Time Magazine Archive

But next day, though she still brought out our food, she set it dow n and left even faster than her grandma used to do.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Some utility companies and state programs offer bigger incentives for lower-income EV buyers, according to Dow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Still, Wall Street-listed tech firms rallied, pulling the Nasdaq and S&P 500 higher along with the Dow.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

So far this month, the equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 is outperforming by 4.1 percentage points, according to preliminary numbers from Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

But just two companies—Nvidia and Micron—account for 34% of that growth, according to a Dow Jones Market Data analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The stock market had rebounded earlier in the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing an all-time record of 15.34 percent in one day on March 15 to close at 62.10.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Spent evening at Mrs. B.'s, talking with Neal Dow. 9th.—Cold and blowy and disagreeable.

From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss

"I never dought you'd threw it—I mean I never thought you'd do it!" cried Harry, brokenly.

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish

"Vell, I did go to Reb Shemuel," said Sugarman "I dought he'd be the very man to arbitrate."

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

I neither dought to buy nor sell At fair or tryst, where I may be, I dought neither speak to prince or peer, Nor ask of grace from fair ladye!’”

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I always dought it vass te olt man himselben.”

From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote

"I dought neither speak to prince nor peer,   Nor ask for grace from fair ladye!"

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

Twin-born, of equal stature, kindred soul Are we; like dowed with strength.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

By some poetical caprice, Our atmosphere of mist and cloud, With rare exotic charm's increase This other Petra Camara dowed.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee

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