look down
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[edit]Verb
[edit]look down (third-person singular simple present looks down, present participle looking down, simple past and past participle looked down)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, down.
- look down someone's shirt
- (intransitive) To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards. [from 10th c.]
- (transitive) To fix one's gaze upon (someone) until they look away; to stare down. [from 17th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, No Abolition of Slavery:
- Thurlow, forbear thy awful frown; / I beg you may not look me down […] .
- (intransitive, finance) To decrease in value. [from 19th c.]