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marked down

marked down is the simple past and past participle of mark down.

Meaning of mark down

Verb

mark down (third-person singular simple present marks down, present participle marking down, simple past and past participle marked down)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the price of.
  2. (transitive) To write a memorandum about.
  3. (transitive) To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
    • The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
  4. (transitive) To write down.
  5. (transitive) To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
    • They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9

Questions about marked down

What is marked down the simple past and past participle of?
Marked down is the simple past and past participle of mark down.

Words near marked down in the dictionary

  1. markdowns
  2. marke
  3. Markeb
  4. marked
  5. marked as
  6. marked down
  7. marked down as
  8. marked off
  9. marked one's own homework
  10. marked out
  11. marked someone's card

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marked down (page history and authors); mark 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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