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downrating

downrating is the present participle and gerund of downrate.

Meaning of downrate

Verb

downrate (third-person singular simple present downrates, present participle downrating, simple past and past participle downrated)

  1. (transitive) To give something a lower rating.
    • The eight-minute connection to East Midlands Railway is a breeze. The train is 170208, its First Class downrated, so I enjoy the wider seats for the hour to Ely, where I arrive a couple of minutes early.2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54

Questions about downrating

What is downrating the present participle and gerund of?
Downrating is the present participle and gerund of downrate.

Words near downrating in the dictionary

  1. downranking
  2. downranks
  3. downrate
  4. downrated
  5. downrates
  6. downrating
  7. downregulatable
  8. downregulate
  9. downregulated
  10. downregulates
  11. downregulating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downrating (page history and authors); downrate (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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