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size down

size down verb: to wear a smaller size of clothing.

Verb

size down (third-person singular simple present sizes down, present participle sizing down, simple past and past participle sized down)

  1. To wear a smaller size of clothing.
    • If your shirt is baggy, you can size down .
  2. (dated, transitive) To consider thoroughly so as to form an opinion of; to size up.
    • "So I sized you down, and I'm bound to say that you came well out of it."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of size down

third-person singular presentsizes down
present participlesizing down
past participlesized down
pastsized down

Questions about size down

What does size down mean?
Size down means to wear a smaller size of clothing.
What part of speech is size down?
Size down is a verb.
What is the past tense of size down?
The past tense of size down is sized down.

Words near size down in the dictionary

  1. sizarship
  2. sizarships
  3. size
  4. size difference
  5. size differences
  6. size down
  7. size effect
  8. size effects
  9. size inflation
  10. size matters
  11. size queen

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