Words that rhyme with southdown

n 1: the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London" [syn: dislocation, breakdown] 2: a mental or physical breakdown [syn: breakdown, crack-up] 3: a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" [syn: breakdown, equipment failure] 4: an analysis into mutually exclusive categories [syn: breakdown, partitioning]

n 1: sudden restriction on an activity

n 1: decline to a lower status or level

n 1: counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle)

n 1: severely repressive actions

n 1: a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: eiderdown, duvet, continental quilt] 2: down of the eider duck

n 1: a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment" [syn: disappointment, letdown]

n 1: the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes

n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) [syn: summation, summing up, rundown]

adj 1: intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a shakedown cruise" n 1: initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown" 2: a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" 3: extortion of money (as by blackmail)

n 1: a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: confrontation, encounter, showdown, face-off]

n 1: termination of operations; "they regretted the closure of the day care center" [syn: closure, closedown, closing, shutdown]

n 1: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown, lag, retardation]

n 1: a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight

n 1: the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon [syn: sunset, sundown] [ant: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup]

n 1: (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position; "a takedown counts two points" 2: a crushing remark [syn: put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown]

n 1: a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line 2: a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes

n 1: (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse

adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone] 2: having the spring unwound; "a run-down watch"

adj 1: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy] 2: (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues [syn: funky, low-down] n 1: slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?" [syn: dope, poop, the skinny, low-down]

adj 1: being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" [syn: inverted, upside-down]