Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to downshift
Participle: downshifted
Gerund: downshifting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | downshift |
| you | downshift |
| he;she;it | downshifts |
| we | downshift |
| you | downshift |
| they | downshift |
Perfect
| I | have downshifted |
| you | have downshifted |
| he;she;it | has downshifted |
| we | have downshifted |
| you | have downshifted |
| they | have downshifted |
Past
| I | downshifted |
| you | downshifted |
| he;she;it | downshifted |
| we | downshifted |
| you | downshifted |
| they | downshifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had downshifted |
| you | had downshifted |
| he;she;it | had downshifted |
| we | had downshifted |
| you | had downshifted |
| they | had downshifted |
Future
| I | will downshift |
| you | will downshift |
| he;she;it | will downshift |
| we | will downshift |
| you | will downshift |
| they | will downshift |
Future Perfect
| I | will have downshifted |
| you | will have downshifted |
| he;she;it | will have downshifted |
| we | will have downshifted |
| you | will have downshifted |
| they | will have downshifted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | downshift |
| you | downshift |
| he;she;it | downshift |
| we | downshift |
| you | downshift |
| they | downshift |
Perfect
| I | have downshifted |
| you | have downshifted |
| he;she;it | have downshifted |
| we | have downshifted |
| you | have downshifted |
| they | have downshifted |
Imperfect
| I | downshifted |
| you | downshifted |
| he;she;it | downshifted |
| we | downshifted |
| you | downshifted |
| they | downshifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had downshifted |
| you | had downshifted |
| he;she;it | had downshifted |
| we | had downshifted |
| you | had downshifted |
| they | had downshifted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would downshift |
| you | would downshift |
| he;she;it | would downshift |
| we | would downshift |
| you | would downshift |
| they | would downshift |
Perfect
| I | would have downshifted |
| you | would have downshifted |
| he;she;it | would have downshifted |
| we | would have downshifted |
| you | would have downshifted |
| they | would have downshifted |
Imperative
| you | downshift |
| we | Let's downshift |
| you | downshift |
Verbs conjugated like 'downshift'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'downshift'
downhill,
downlist,
downsize,
downslant,
powershift,
unshift,
backshift,
consist,
densify,
dogsit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The noun is derived from down (preposition) + shift (“slight change or movement”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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But in this variation on Superbad's wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism. [2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:]
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He brought the car to a stop before the bridge, downshifted and then put her at the road again in a rising disciplined snarl along the N.6 to Cannes. [a. 1962, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 27, in The Garden of Eden, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1986, →ISBN, page 229:]
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In a stick-shift vehicle, the driver must downshift when necessary; in an automatic, the transmission downshifts as needed.