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look down

verb
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, down. · look down someone's shirt
  2. To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards. (intransitive)
  3. To fix one's gaze upon (someone) until they look away; to stare down. (transitive)
  4. To decrease in value. (intransitive)
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Till I look down on the garden green,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 11 · C1
We shall look down on the
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 21 · C1
Our seat is right by the window and we can look down to the Lake of Shining Waters.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1
It was useless to look down, for he could only see the topsides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann the Kite balancing and wheeling as he kept watch over the jungle waiting for things to die.
The Jungle Book, p. 39 · B2

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