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sized down

sized down is the simple past and past participle of size down.

Meaning of size down

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

Questions about sized down

What is sized down the simple past and past participle of?
Sized down is the simple past and past participle of size down.

Words near sized down in the dictionary

  1. sizeable
  2. sizeableness
  3. sizeably
  4. sizecode
  5. sized
  6. sized down
  7. sized up
  8. sizeism
  9. sizeist
  10. sizeists
  11. sizel

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