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downstages

downstages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downstage.

Meaning of downstage

Verb

downstage (third-person singular simple present downstages, present participle downstaging, simple past and past participle downstaged)

  1. (transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).

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Questions about downstages

What is downstages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Downstages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downstage.

Words near downstages in the dictionary

  1. downstabs
  2. downstack
  3. downstacks
  4. downstage
  5. downstaged
  6. downstages
  7. downstaging
  8. downstagings
  9. downstair
  10. downstairs
  11. downstat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downstages (page history and authors); downstage (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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