Downing

[ dou-ning ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

He suggests downing an additional eight to 16 ounces every hour throughout the day.

Players stopped downing chili dogs or cheese fries before games.

The 1983 downing of KAL 007 sharpened American tensions with the Soviet Union to heights not seen since the Cuban missile crisis.

The Kremlin blames Strelkov for the downing of the jet—a propaganda disaster for Russia.

Several leaders of the rebellion are out, possibly because of the downing of MH17.

Thomas Downing, for thirty years, in the city of New York, has been proprietor of one of the leading restaurants.

Mr. Downing has commanded great influence, and much means, and it is said of him that he has made "three fortunes."

Mr. Downing is still very popular, doing a most excellent business, and highly respected throughout New York.

Indeed, you scarcely hear any other establishment of the kind spoken of than Downing's.

But Sir G. Downing would not be answered so: though all the world takes notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his pains.

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