size down

verb

To wear a smaller size of clothing.

“If your shirt is baggy, you can size down .”

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Meanings

verbsize down (third-person singular simple present sizes down, present participle sizing down, simple past and past participle sized down)

present singular third person sizes down · participle present sizing down · participle past sized down · past sized down

  1. To wear a smaller size of clothing.

    If your shirt is baggy, you can size down .

  2. datedtransitiveTo consider thoroughly so as to form an opinion of; to size up.

    "So I sized you down, and I'm bound to say that you came well out of it."

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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