Come Down

Definition: Come Down

Come Down

Verb

1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again".

2. Be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise".

3. Fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum.".

4. Get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital".

5. Criticize or reprimand harshly; "The critics came down hard on the new play".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Come Down

Atonement

Apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable, give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones.

Cheapness

Verb: be cheap; Adjective: cost little; come down in price, fall in price.

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Tumble, trip, stumble, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Payment

Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down.

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Crosswords: Come Down

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Listen, I'll come down there and give you a crew cut, Mister (Big Daddy; writing credit: Steve Franks)

Tom Baxter's come down off the screen and he's running around New Jersey (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.)

Couldn't you come down here so I can talk to you (Curly Top; writing credit: Arthur J. Beckhard; Patterson McNutt)

Oh let the rain come down (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

When they all come down and did tricks for you (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

If you come down to the river ("Proud Mary"; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

It's not much to ask come down off your cloud (Without Love; performing artist: Donna Lewis)

Or Here They Come Down Our Street Parade (1952)

River Come Down (performing artist: The Journeymen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Comanche Come Down (White Squaw No. 23) (reference)

• Let It Come Down (reference)

• Never Come Down [3 1/2 disk, HTML] (reference)

• Plays for England: The Blood of the Bambergs, Under Plain Cover, Watch It Come Down (Oberon Books) (reference)

• The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down (Orchard Paperbacks) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

To soothe Ellis I called Frank to come down from his perch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Come down, Maria Pascala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't you boys want to come down and help?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriages come down the assembly line. In the foreground, the frame for the carriage is assembled. War production program scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the. Credit: Library of Congress.

Student flyer who has just come down from solo flight. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Somewhere in Central Africa. Modern science takes its place beside old time African fetishes, as the witch doctors rest between dances. The fish are typical examples of customary ju-ju that has come down through ages of the Dark Continent's history, and t. Credit: Library of Congress.

Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. Noodles come down the chute after drying and are packed in cellophane envelopes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Then, she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect

He watched the visitors come down the steps from the house and pass into the theatre

While these things go up other things come down.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

An outbreak of foodborne illness occurs when a group of people consume the same contaminated food and two or more of them come down with the same illness. (references)

Estimates on the high end of this range come down substantially if one considers couples who plan to have more than one child or if identified carriers inform siblings and other relatives. (references)

Business

The difference between importing and buying locally, can come down to the numbers of days to deliver a product. (references)

Economic History

Austria

Electricity and telecom costs have come down appreciably in response to liberalization and competition. (references)

Netherlands

The stock of public debt fell in step from well over 67 percent in 1998 to 56.3 percent of GDP in 2000. The debt to GDP ratio is forecast to come down further to slightly less than 50 percent of GDP in 2002, which is well below the EMU 60 percent debt to GDP criterion. (references)

Sweden

Gross public debt, which jumped from 43 percent of GDP in 1990 to 78 percent in 1994, stabilized around the middle of the 1990s and started to come down again more significantly from 1999. In 2000 it fell below the key level of 60 percent and is expected to be eliminated within a few years. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Since then, the ratio has come down to one fifth of public debt. (references)

SWEDEN

Swedish interest rates soared but have come down rapidly starting in 1996 and are now on an EU level. (references)

SWEDEN

Sweden's tax burden is 52.2 percent of GDP for 2001. Central government expenditure during the recent severe recession was nearly 75 percent of GDP, and in 2001 it will come down to 54 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "come down": come down a cropper ♦ come down a peg ♦ come down handsome ♦ come down in favor of smb. ♦ come down in price ♦ come down in sheets ♦ come down in the world ♦ come down on ♦ come down on one's knees ♦ come down on one's marrowbones ♦ come down on the right side of the fence ♦ come down to ♦ come down to business ♦ come down to earth ♦ come down with ♦ come down with a run ♦ come down with smth. ♦ come down with the flu ♦ To come down ♦ To come down upon. Additional references.

Albanian

rënie autoriteti, rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), pësoj rënie (dilapidate), kalon brez pas brezi, humbje (blow, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هبط (decline, descend, dive, fall, set down, slump, subside), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏إفتقر (ruin), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унижение (abjection, debasement, derogation, humiliation, ignominy, indignity, mortification, prostration), слизам (climb down, detrain, dismount, drop, get down, get off, get out of, go down, land, pop down, step down, step out), руша се (erode, ruin), разболявам се (fall ill, get ill, sicken), западам (decay, dwindle, fail, falter, go back, molder, moulder, sag, sink, turn down), бивам повален (fall), предавам се по наследство, приземявам се (land, put down, touch down), падение (abjection, disgrace, fall, lapse, ruin), падам (attach, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down), достигам (abut upon, achieve, acquire, carry down, come, come by, fetch, gain, greet, grow, hit, reach, scale, turn, win). (various references)

Chinese 

降 (surrender, to come down, to descend, to drop, to fall). (various references)

Czech

snížit se (demean, lower, sag, slacken, slip, stoop), sestoupit (descend, dismount, get down, go down, light), sesednout (alight, dismount, get down), sejít (become decrepit, get down), klesnout (decrease, drop, go under, sink), úpadek (bankruptcy, comedown, decadence, decay, decline, degradation, deterioration, labefaction, lapse, recession, retrogression, retroversion). (various references)

Finnish

varista (be scattered, drop, fall off). (various references)

French

se résumer, revenir � (cost), faire la descente, diminuer, descendre (coast), être démoli. (various references)

German

sinken (decline, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, founder, go down, sag, sink, slump, subside, wane), runtergehen (go down), niedergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, descend, drop, fall), landen (alight, connect, debark, descend, disembark, end up, fetch up, finish up, get somewhere, land, land up, put down, to alight, to debark, to disembark, to land, touch down), herunterkommen (become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, descend, get down, go downhill, go to rack and ruin), heruntergekommen (decrepit, dilapidated, down at heel, run down, seamy, sordid), herunterfallen, fallen (be dropped, be fired, be killed, be made, be mentioned, be passed, be pronounced, be uttered, decrease, descend, die, drop, fall, fall off, flop, go down, halyards, hang, impinge, lower, pitch, pitfalls, slip, slump, to fall (fell, topple, traps, tumble), aufsetzen (beach, bring down, draft, ground, land, lay, lower, put on, set up, sit up, touch down, touchdown), ankommen (arrival, arrive, catch on, come, come across, come along, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down, go down well, go over, hinge, move in, pull in, take off, to arrive, wander in), abgerissen werden, überliefert werden. (various references)

Greek 

κατεβαίνω (alight, climb down, come off, descend, dismount, get down, get off, go down, step down), ξεπέφτω (abase oneself, demean oneself, derogate from, fall off, stoop to), ξεπεσμόσ (abasement, degradation). (various references)

Hebrew 

יר�" (descend), ל�"תמוטט (break down, collapse, founder, go to pieces, topple), לר�"ת (descend, down, fall, go down, sag, settle, subside), ל� חות (alight, descend, land, sink, touch down). (various references)

Hungarian

megszeppen, lezüllik (go to the dogs, to go to the bad, to go to the dogs), lejön (descend, go down, take off, to be down, to come down, to come off, to get down, to get off), lecsúszás (backsliding, wash-out), bukás (breakdown, catastrophe, debacle, doom, downfall, failure, fall, fiasco, mucker, overthrow, spill, tumble), öröklõdik. (various references)

Italian

calare (cast off, drop, ebb, fall, go down, let down, let oneself down, lose weight, lower, recede, sink, slack off, slacken, slump, subside, wane), scendere (alight, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, get out, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down), discendere (accrue, come, derive, descend, drop, fall, go down, originate, result, slope down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

落下　 (drop, fall), 落下 (drop, fall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

らっか (drop, fall, falling petals). (various references)

Manx

cheet neose (alight, challenge, descend, descending, descent). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

desmoronar (cave in, collapse, go to pieces), descer (descend, down, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, go over, lower, prolapse, sink, step down), baixar (down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, tone down, turn down). (various references)

Romanian

coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, collapse, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip, vote down), veni (appear, approach, arrive, come, draw, fall, follow, go in, set in), sosi (arrive, be in, come, come in, end up, get, go in, land), se opri (break, cease, check, come to a stand, come to a stop, draw up, halt, let up, pause, rest, stand, stand at, stop), se ieftini, jos (below, down, downstairs, here, low, low-pitched, under, underneath), eşua (abort, beach, break down, drop through, fail, fall, founder, ground, miscarry, pile up, run aground, run ashore, strand), degrada (abase, bastardize, break, debase, degrade, depreciate, dilapidate, gradate, grade, pervert, reduce to the ranks, waste). (various references)

Russian 

уменьшаться (abate, decline, decrease, depopulate, diminish, dwindle, grow down, grow downwards, peter out, remit, take off), упадок (decadence, decadency, decay, decline, degeneration, degradation, depression, dilapidation, downgrade, down-grade, downswing, ebb, eclipse, non-event, regress, retrogression, wane), спускаться снижение, спускаться (alight, descend, get down, get off, go down), спадать (sink, subside), рушиться (collapse, fall flat on the ground, fall flat on your face), опускаться (descend, dip, fall), падение (come-down, decline, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, letdown, pitch, recession, subsidence, tumble), падать (drop, fall, fall down, fallen, fell, overturn, plummeted, sag, sagged, sink, subside, tumble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svoditi se (come to), silazak (descent), sići (alight, climb down, descend, get down, get off, get out, go down, light, step down), poticati (come from, derive, descend, flow out, originate, result, stem), pad (collapse, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, spill, tumble). (various references)

Spanish

caerse (come off, drop, fall, fall down, fall over, go down, like, pitch, shank off, topple, tumble, tumble out), caer (catch on, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall out, fall over, go, go down, hang, like, live, loll, plunge, set, sink, tilt, tip over, trip, trip over, trip up, tumble, tumble down), venirse abajo (fall down, sink, topple, tumble down), ser transmitido, ser derribado (blow down), revés (back, backhand, backhand stroke, backset, backstroke, check, rear, reverse, reverse side, setback, upset), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), estrellarse (crash, prang, smash), desplomarse (collapse, fall in, pancake, tumble down), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), aterrizar (alight, land, set down, touch down), amar (love). (various references)

Swedish

steg tillbaka, störta samman (collapse, tumble down), sluta vid universitet, rivas (scratch), landa (alight, land, land on), komma ned, falla av (chance, droop, drop off, fall off, happen), besvikelse (bummer, chagrin, disappointment, discomfiture, disenchantment, letdown). (various references)

Turkish

yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall over, fall to pieces, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble, tumble down, wither away), ucuzlamak (become cheap, cheap, cheapen, fall, go on sale), inmek (alight, climb down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into, take off), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), gözden düşmek (be disgraced, be in disfavor, be in disfavour, be in the doghouse, be sent into the wilderness, fall from grace, fall into disfavor, fall into disfavour, loose one's credit), fiyatı düşmek, düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), burnu sürtülmek (eat humble pie, learn one's lesson), önemsizleşmek, çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Turkmen 

dьюmek (descend, dismount), зцkmek (fall, sink). (various references)

Ukrainian

спускатися (alight, descend, get down, go down, hang down, walk down), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, collapse, crash, defeat, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruin, ruination, wreckage), значне погіршення, приниження (abasement, abjection, climb down, debasement, depreciation, detraction, humiliation, mortification, stoop), падіння (bathos, cracker, demission, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, falling, labefaction, subsidence, tumble, upset), падати (crash, drop, fall, pitch, subside). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: comedown, downcome.

-1 letter: woodmen.

-2 letters: comedo, condom, cowmen, mooned, wooden.

-3 letters: coden, codon, condo, coned, cooed, cowed, demon, endow, monde, mondo, mooed, mowed, odeon, owned, women, wooed.

-4 letters: code, coed, come, cone, coon, deco, demo, dome, done, doom, down, enow, mend, meno, meow, mode, mono, mood, moon, mown, node, nome, omen, once, owed, wend, wood.

-5 letters: cod, con.

+1 letter: comedowns, downcomes.

+4 letters: backwoodsmen.