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downdates

downdates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downdate.

Meaning of downdate

Verb

downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)

  1. To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update.
  2. To undo an update.
    • I downdated the database to undo the most recent update.
  3. To date earlier.
    • These excavations should be downdated.

Questions about downdates

What is downdates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Downdates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downdate.

Words near downdates in the dictionary

  1. downcycled
  2. downcycles
  3. downcycling
  4. downdate
  5. downdated
  6. downdates
  7. downdating
  8. Downderry
  9. downdip
  10. downdog
  11. downdogs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downdates (page history and authors); downdate (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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