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sell down

sell down verb: to become less by being sold.

Verb (1)

sell down (third-person singular simple present sells down, present participle selling down, simple past and past participle sold down)

  1. (UK, intransitive) To become less by being sold.
    • Don't order any potato cakes for 3 days while what we have sells down.
  2. (UK, transitive) To reduce by selling.
    • Don't order any potato cakes for 3 days while we sell down our stocks., or
    • Don't order any potato cakes for 3 days while we sell our stocks down.

Verb (2)

sell down (third-person singular simple present sells down, present participle selling down, simple past and past participle sold down)

  1. (idiomatic) To betray a person; to conspire against someone for personal gain.

sell down meaning in Bengali

sell down in Bengali

বিক্রির মাধ্যমে কমানো

Synonyms of sell down

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Forms of sell down

third-person singular presentsells down
present participleselling down
past participlesold down
pastsold down

Origin of sell down

From sell + down.

Shortening of sell down the river

Words formed from sell down

Questions about sell down

What does sell down mean?
Sell down means to become less by being sold.
What is sell down in Bengali?
Sell down in Bengali is বিক্রির মাধ্যমে কমানো. See Sell down meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sell down?
Sell down is a verb.
What is the past tense of sell down?
The past tense of sell down is sold down.

Words near sell down in the dictionary

  1. sell bargains
  2. sell by the candle
  3. sell coal to Newcastle
  4. sell coals to Newcastle
  5. sell dearly
  6. sell down
  7. sell down the river
  8. sell freezers to Eskimos
  9. sell ice to Eskimos
  10. sell in May
  11. sell in May and go away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sell down (page history and authors); sell down (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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