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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

If I had to write dow n every transgression for which I should apologize to Tom, I could fill a book.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 237.33 points, or 0.46%, to 51285.73.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%, pointing to further gains for the index following its postelection surge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Nvidia was also on track to lose $415 billion in market capitalization Thursday, which would be its second-largest one-day decline, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

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

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

"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 or sell   At fair or tryst where I might be.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Or if thy labbedt gleabs thou bayst dot blidd, Thed bay they aid our airbed add our guds; Its bark bay every barkigg bissile fidd, Bay dought be dode abiss, dor dode be duds.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 by Various

“Vel, I dought you was sick—you look bad, sir,” answered the good old pilot; “de sea is very rough, sir.”

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

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

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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