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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

It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street.

From Time Magazine Archive

A moment later the car moves backward, dow n the driveway and onto the street, and vanishes behind the hedge.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Over the 130 years since the Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published in 1896, gridlock prevailed in only 35 of those years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The S&P 500 tanked more than four percent and the Dow more than three percent.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The S&P 500 lost an estimated $2.9 trillion in market capitalization, the largest one-day wipe out of market value on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1833.06 points, or 3.44%, to 51523.06, its biggest loss since April 4, 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 449 points, to its lowest level in four years, and most of the market-moving news was coming not from the private sector but from government officials.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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 always dought it vass te olt man himselben.”

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

Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought, An’ did the buckskins claw, man; But Clinton’s glaive frae rust to save, He hung it to the wa’, man.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

He has tane up a meikle stane, 10 And flang't as far as I cold see; Ein thouch I had been Wallace wicht, I dought na lift it to my knie.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

"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

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

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

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