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turtles down

turtles down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of turtle down.

Meaning of turtle down

Verb

turtle down (third-person singular simple present turtles down, present participle turtling down, simple past and past participle turtled down)

  1. (intransitive) To shrink (to cower or flinch).
    • As soon as he entered the haunted house, he turtled down into his jacket.

Questions about turtles down

What is turtles down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Turtles down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of turtle down.

Words near turtles down in the dictionary

  1. turtlenecks
  2. turtler
  3. turtlers
  4. turtles
  5. turtles all the way down
  6. turtles down
  7. turtles up
  8. Turtlese
  9. turtleshell
  10. turtleshells
  11. turtlesoup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turtles down (page history and authors); turtle down (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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