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adown

/uh-doun/US // əˈdaʊn //

跌倒,跌落,跌宕起伏,跌幅

Definitions

  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : down.

Examples

  • A day that with joy is bubbling—And dancing adown a world mad-gay?

  • I thought it would be nice to go adown the path and pipe a forest song to the mamma of the gladness of the spring.

  • Our horses, though they purposely are left unshod, make a prodigious clatter as they stumble adown the rough, uneven way.

  • The shawl which Mrs. Allen had folded over her shoulders from fear of cold, hung loosely adown her long night robe.

  • He can brave a moonlight walk adown sweet-scented lanes or a twilight pull among the somber rushes.