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down with

/daʊn wɪθ/

down with interjection: expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.

Interjection

  1. Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.
    • Down with the government!
    • The fugitives passed by his horse, through the group of the generals, through the foot guards, on the way towards Sedan with the cry, "Everyone for himself! All is lost! All is finished! Down with the Emperor — down with the generals who have betrayed us! On, on!"1877, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, volumes 145-146, page 273

Preposition

down with

  1. (colloquial) Comfortable with; having a positive, favourable, or accepting attitude toward; approving of; okay with.
    • “If I can make your lives easier by staying where I'm supposed to, I'm down with it.”2017, Iona Morrison, Dance with a Devil, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN
    • “They both looked at each other and she smiled and said, “I'm down with it, let's do it.”2014, Harvey Douglas Wall, HAM The Fire Starter, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 99
  2. (colloquial) Suffering from (an illness).
    • Everyone's down with the flu, and I'm in the office all by myself.

down with meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi

down with in Hindi

expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against
मुरदाबाद murdābād

down with in Tamil

away with
ஒழிக oḻika

down with in Urdu

expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against
مُرْدَہ باد murda bād

down with in Punjabi

down with..., death to...!
ਮੁਰਦਾਬਾਦ murdābād
More languagesFewer languages
down with in Arabic
يسقط yasqut, تسقط tasqut
down with in Malay
tolak
down with in Thai
...จงพินาศ ... jong-pí-nâat
down with in Vietnamese
đả đảo

Examples of down with in a sentence

  • “Hey, dude, are you down with this groove?”2014, Poe Hawkins, The Last Alchemist: And the Love of His Life, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 204:
  • Now are you down with this shit one hundred percent, because this isn't the Carolinas.2012, O’Shun M Jones, The Commission: A Hip Hop Interpretation of the Mafia, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38:
  • “Look, are you down with this or not, Kicky?2008, H.A. Covington, The Brigade, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 187:

Antonyms of down with

Questions about down with

What does down with mean?
Down with means expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.
What is down with in Hindi?
Down with in Hindi is मुरदाबाद (murdābād). See Down with meaning in Hindi.
How do you use down with in a sentence?
“Hey, dude, are you down with this groove?”
What part of speech is down with?
Down with can be an interjection or a preposition.
How do you pronounce down with?
Down with is pronounced /daʊn wɪθ/.

Words near down with in the dictionary

  1. down trains
  2. down tube
  3. down tubes
  4. down under
  5. down upon one's luck
  6. down with
  7. down with one's dust
  8. down with the dust
  9. down with the kids
  10. Down's
  11. Down's syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: down with (page history and authors); ਮੁਰਦਾਬਾਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). 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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