remain down

1. 1.

   be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten

   Synonymstake the count

   Broaderlose

   boxing

Questions about remain down

What does remain down mean?

remain down means "be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten".

What is another word for remain down?

Close synonyms include take the count. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is remain down a common word?

remain down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.