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voted down

voted down is the simple past and past participle of vote down.

Meaning of vote down

Verb

vote down (third-person singular simple present votes down, present participle voting down, simple past and past participle voted down)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote.
    • His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it.

Questions about voted down

What is voted down the simple past and past participle of?
Voted down is the simple past and past participle of vote down.

Words near voted down in the dictionary

  1. votebanks
  2. votebanned
  3. votebanning
  4. votebans
  5. voted
  6. voted down
  7. voted in
  8. voted out
  9. voted up
  10. voted with one's feet
  11. voted with one's wallet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voted down (page history and authors); vote 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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