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TO LET DOWN

Definition: TO LET DOWN

TO LET DOWN

1. (a) To lower. (b) To soften in tempering; as, to let down tools, cutlery, and the like.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: TO LET DOWN

English words defined with "TO LET DOWN": Uncock. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO LET DOWN": Valinch. (references)

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Photo Album: TO LET DOWN

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No time to let down. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translation: TO LET DOWN

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO LET DOWN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

kathienai. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

demitto, summitto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO LET DOWN

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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