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paid down

paid down is the simple past and past participle of pay down.

Meaning of pay down

Verb

pay down (third-person singular simple present pays down, present participle paying down, simple past and past participle paid down)

  1. (transitive) To partially repay (a loan or, metonymically, the thing financed by it).
    • He paid down his loan for the first five months.

Questions about paid down

What is paid down the simple past and past participle of?
Paid down is the simple past and past participle of pay down.

Words near paid down in the dictionary

  1. paid attention
  2. paid back
  3. paid back in someone's own coin
  4. paid dearly
  5. paid dividends
  6. paid down
  7. paid for itself
  8. paid for one's whistle
  9. paid forward
  10. paid good money after bad
  11. paid heed

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