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Definition: TO LET DOWN |
TO LET DOWN1. (a) To lower. (b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools, cutlery, and the like. |
Crosswords: TO LET DOWN |
| English words defined with "TO LET DOWN": Uncock. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO LET DOWN": Valinch. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | No time to let down. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "TO LET DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | leenged (depress, ground, let down, lower, pull down, to deflate, to lower, to pull down), felültet (to hocus, to mount, to scam), cserbenhagy (betray, forsake, forsaken, forsook, leave him in the lurch, throw over, to desert, to die on it, to fail, to fall off, to forsake, to renege, to throw over), átejt (bunk, con, double cross, gyp, have sy on, short-change, spoof, to con, to gag, to get at, to gyp, to pass the buck, to spoof). (various references) | |
Manx | dy chuirr (to let down a net). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay etlay ownday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kathienai. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | demitto, summitto. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-o-t-t-w" | |
-2 letters: letdown, tootled, townlet. | |
-3 letters: dewool, dottel, dottle, looted, lotted, noodle, toledo, tonlet, tooled, tooted, tootle, wonted, wooden, wooled, woolen, wotted. | |
-4 letters: dowel, dwelt, endow, lento, loden, looed, lotte, lotto, lowed, noted, odeon, olden, owlet, owned, toled, tondo, toned, toted, towed, towel, wooed. | |
-5 letters: delt, dent, dole, dolt, done, dote, down, enol, enow, lend, leno. | |
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