DEEP DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep down mean? 

• DEEP DOWN (adverb)
  The adverb DEEP DOWN has 1 sense:

1. in reality

  Familiarity information: DEEP DOWN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP DOWN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In reality

Synonyms:

at bottom; at heart; deep down; in spite of appearance; inside

Context example:

she is very kind at heart

 Context examples 

The snap had taken effect on the shoulder that had been hurt by the lynx and that was still sore deep down near the bone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Deep down in the recesses of the coffin lay an emaciated figure.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes thrust the blue envelope deep down into the heart of them, between the leaves of some other document.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The loose interior also allows water from the ocean to percolate deep down, where it heats up, then rises, interacting chemically with the rocks.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

Long time the silent ranks upon the hill could see a swirl and eddy deep down in the heart of the Spanish column, with a circle of rearing chargers and flashing blades.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked at him mischievously, though deep down she was already regretting that she had not preferred her largest request.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some researchers are delving deep down to see how dust comes together at the atomic level, while others are looking at the big picture to see where stars and planets might be forming in dusty stellar nurseries.

(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)

Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, truly, replied the peasant, I sank deep, deep down, until at last I got to the bottom; I pushed the bottom out of the barrel, and crept out, and there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding, and from thence I brought this flock away with me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Also, their effect was irritating, for Cherokee began to growl, very softly, deep down in his throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)