Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling down (soft immature feathers) or some aspect of it.

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  • adjective like down or as soft as down

Etymologies

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down +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The bottoms only five or six meters downlike the deep end of a high-diving pool.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • If only to stop some of the absurd lower court decisions that have been coming downlike:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Overturning the Roberts Court: 2009

  • The bottoms only five or six meters downlike the deep end of a high-diving pool.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • The bottoms only five or six meters downlike the deep end of a high-diving pool.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • For finger foods, they had scallion pancakes (referred to as Pa Jon in Korean), a nice selection of shrimp and vegetable tempura, Fried chicken wings, fried zucchini, and some potstickers (which I ate 136 of - they go downlike popcorn).

    Arang Korean/Sushi Buffet | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2006

  • The bottoms only five or six meters downlike the deep end of a high-diving pool.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • The bottoms only five or six meters downlike the deep end of a high-diving pool.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • Silvan reached out his hand, ran his fingers over her head, felt the warmth of her skin, the sofu1ess of the downlike hai4 the hardness of the bone beneath.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • I laid her down on her bed, put the sheet over her feet, sat down beside her, and brushed her soft, downlike hair with my hand.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • I laid her down on her bed, put the sheet over her feet, sat down beside her, and brushed her soft, downlike hair with my hand.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

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