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verb-intransitive. To shift a motor vehicle into a lower gear.

verb-intransitive. To reduce the speed, rate, or intensity of something.

verb-intransitive. To simplify or reduce one's expectations or commitments, especially in work hours: "28 percent said that they had downshifted and voluntarily cut back on their income in some way ... to reflect changes in priorities” ( Carey Goldberg).

v. To shift (a motor vehicle) into a lower gear.

v. To reduce in speed, rate, or intensity: "The president is downshifting his confrontational rhetoric and reaffirming his readiness to talk arms control” ( Newsweek).

v. To simplify or reduce one's commitments in (one's life).

v. To shift a transmission into a lower gear.

v. To function at a lower rate.

n. a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle

n. a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one

"Fleming managed a convincing attacca downshift from the "éternellement lumineux" young bodies of "La maison" to an intoxicated, drill-sergeant bark for "Les deux guerriers.""

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