buckle down
buckle down verb: to apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort.
Verb
buckle down (third-person singular simple present buckles down, present participle buckling down, simple past and past participle buckled down)
- To apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort.
- If he would buckle down and do his homework, he could be an excellent student.
- I confess that the recollection of what this bell could do when it buckled down to it gave me pause as I stood that night at 12.30 p.m. prompt beside the outhouse where it was located.1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXII, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 280
- Synonyms:
- buckle to
buckle down meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
buckle down in Bengali
- পড়াশোনা, প্রয়োজনীয় চেষ্টা করা
buckle down in Malayalam
- get (down) to work, set to work, get down to business
- ഉദ്യമത്തിനുതയ്യാറാകുക, സർവ്വശക്തികളും ചെലുത്തി പ്രയത്നിക്കുക, പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, ചെയ്യാൻ തുടങ്ങുക, അരയും തലയും മുറുക്കുക, അത്യദ്ധ്വാനം ചെയ്യുക
Synonyms of buckle down
Forms of buckle down
| third-person singular present | buckles down |
|---|---|
| present participle | buckling down |
| past participle | buckled down |
| past | buckled down |
Origin of buckle down
From buckle + down.
Questions about buckle down
- What does buckle down mean?
- Buckle down means to apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort.
- What is buckle down in Bengali?
- Buckle down in Bengali is পড়াশোনা, প্রয়োজনীয় চেষ্টা করা. See Buckle down meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is buckle down?
- Buckle down is a verb.
- What is the past tense of buckle down?
- The past tense of buckle down is buckled down.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: buckle down (page history and authors); buckle down (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); buckle down (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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