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geared down

geared down is the simple past and past participle of gear down.

Meaning of gear down

Verb

gear down (third-person singular simple present gears down, present participle gearing down, simple past and past participle geared down)

  1. To arrange a system of gear wheels or pulleys etc such that the driven part rotates or moves slower than the driving part.
  2. To shift to a lower gear in a manual-transmission car.

Questions about geared down

What is geared down the simple past and past participle of?
Geared down is the simple past and past participle of gear down.

Words near geared down in the dictionary

  1. Geard
  2. geardo
  3. geardos
  4. geare
  5. geared
  6. geared down
  7. geared to
  8. geared towards
  9. geared turbofan
  10. geared up
  11. geares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geared down (page history and authors); gear down (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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