"downdate" meaning in All languages combined

See downdate on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: downdates [present, singular, third-person], downdating [participle, present], downdated [participle, past], downdated [past]
Etymology: From down- + date. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|down|date}} down- + date Head templates: {{en-verb}} downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)
  1. To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update.
    Sense id: en-downdate-en-verb-HoMrSVWl
  2. To undo an update.
    Sense id: en-downdate-en-verb-UxWJu5pl
  3. To date earlier.
    Sense id: en-downdate-en-verb-Wh9Uk8fd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English hybridisms, English terms prefixed with down-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 9 83 Disambiguation of English hybridisms: 9 9 83 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with down-: 28 29 43 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 8 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 5 90

Inflected forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "[1,2] update"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
        "3": "date"
      },
      "expansion": "down- + date",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From down- + date.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downdates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update."
      ],
      "id": "en-downdate-en-verb-HoMrSVWl",
      "links": [
        [
          "update",
          "update"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I downdated the database to undo the most recent update.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To undo an update."
      ],
      "id": "en-downdate-en-verb-UxWJu5pl",
      "links": [
        [
          "update",
          "update"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 9 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 9 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English hybridisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 29 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with down-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 8 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 5 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "These excavations should be downdated.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To date earlier."
      ],
      "id": "en-downdate-en-verb-Wh9Uk8fd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "downdate"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "[1,2] update"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English hybridisms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms prefixed with down-",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
        "3": "date"
      },
      "expansion": "down- + date",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From down- + date.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downdates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "downdated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "downdate (third-person singular simple present downdates, present participle downdating, simple past and past participle downdated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "update",
          "update"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I downdated the database to undo the most recent update.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To undo an update."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "update",
          "update"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "These excavations should be downdated.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To date earlier."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downdate"
}

Download raw JSONL data for downdate meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.