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reach down

reach down verb: to take an item down from a high shelf or the like.

Verb

reach down (third-person singular simple present reaches down, present participle reaching down, simple past and past participle reached down)

  1. (transitive) To take an item down from a high shelf or the like.
    • Just reach me down that volume, would you.
    • 'Shall I reach the grips down for you?'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 15, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 182
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reach, down.
    • She reached down to grap the bottle lying on the floor.

Forms of reach down

third-person singular presentreaches down
present participlereaching down
past participlereached down
pastreached down

Questions about reach down

What does reach down mean?
Reach down means to take an item down from a high shelf or the like.
What part of speech is reach down?
Reach down is a verb.
What is the past tense of reach down?
The past tense of reach down is reached down.

Words near reach down in the dictionary

  1. reacetylating
  2. reacetylation
  3. reacetylations
  4. reach
  5. reach across the aisle
  6. reach down
  7. reach for
  8. reach for the moon
  9. reach for the skies
  10. reach for the sky
  11. reach for the stars

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