Get Down

Definition: Get Down

Get Down

Verb

1. Lower (one's body) as by kneeling; "Get down on your knees!".

2. Move something or somebody to a lower position.

3. Get off (a horse).

4. Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!".

5. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her".

6. Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.

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

Synonyms: Get Down

Descent

Dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Crosswords: Get Down

Let's get down to business. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

In the meantime, what do you say we get down to business? (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

Oh for goodness sakes, get down off that crucifix, someone needs the wood! (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; writing credit: Stephan Elliott.)

Do you ever get down on your knees and thank God you know me and have access to my dementia? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

In exactly twenty seconds I'm going to start shooting through that door, so get down on your stomachs! (Gloria; writing credit: John Cassavetes)

Get down, get down, get down (Get Down; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

But if you wanna get down, baby, it's cool (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Never expect you to get down (Everybody Doesn't; performing artist: Amanda)

Got me wanna get down all night (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

Can I get down, so I can win (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

Get Down (performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

GET DOWN TONIGHT (performing artist: KC & The Sunshine Band )

Get Down On It (performing artist: Kool & The Gang)

Let's Get Down (performing artist: Tony Toni Tone)

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

Books

• Get Down!! Dog Cartoons (reference)

• The Redneck Cookbook: 134 Mighty Fine Fixins' and Other Things to Get Down Your Gullet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Get Down on It (reference)

• Get Down Grand Funk (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• For Those Who Like to Get Down (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

When I get down I'll break your head, shouted Billy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Now we can get down to business. Credit: Library of Congress.

Get down with us at the Y.W.L.L. holiday season bash. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Marius physically had not the time to get down from the bureau, and go and hide himself under the bed.

A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If you let too much fluid build up between sessions, it is harder to get down to your proper dry weight. (references)

Travel

Egypt

When you visit a businessperson, don't just walk in, shake hands and get down to business. (references)

Czech Rep

Czechs are more reserved than Americans, and will be nervous about a typical American "let's get down to business" approach. (references)

Denmark

However, they are likely to get down to business right away and are generally conservative and efficient in their approach to business meetings. (references)

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

Expressions using "get down": be able to get down ♦ get down business ♦ get down on one's knees ♦ get down to ♦ get down to bedrock ♦ get down to brass tacks ♦ get down to business ♦ get down to rock bottom ♦ get down to work. Additional references.

Albanian

ligështoj (dispirit, enervate, enfeeble), filloj (begin, come, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set about, set in, set to, set up, start, strike up), dëshpëroj (cast down, despair, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, embitter, sadden), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, 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), ‏ركز التفكير. (various references)

Basque

jaitsi (descend to, get down to, go down to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), слизам (climb down, come down, detrain, dismount, drop, get off, get out of, go down, land, pop down, step down, step out), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), гълтам (absorb, devour, gulp, pouch, run away with, slummock, sup, swallow, swig), откачам (declutch, slip, uncouple, unfasten, unfix, unhang, unhook, unlink, unpeg, unyoke), залавям се, записвам (log, margin, mark down, note, put down, record, register, set down, sign in, sign up, stick down, take down, write down), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, flatten, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, quench, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down), падам духом (lose heart). (various references)

Czech

vystoupit (alight, disembark, get off, get out, get out of, get out(of), remount, secede, stand up, step off), sundat (detach, doff, reach, take down, tumble, tumble down, uncover), slézt (climb down, come off, come out, dismount), sestoupit (come down, descend, dismount, go down, light), sesednout (alight, come down, dismount), sejít (become decrepit, come down), sešplhat, deprimovat (cast down, depress, dishearten, dispirit, drag down, get down on one's knees). (various references)

Finnish

laskeutua (alight, come dawn, descend, go down, land, settle, sink, touch down). (various references)

French

descendre (get off, get out, get out of a car), bien réfléchir, avaler. (various references)

German

sich ducken (bob down, cower, cringe, dodge, duck, nestle, to crouch), sich bücken (bend, bend down, bend over, stoop, to bend down), notieren (book, jot down, list, make a note, mark down, mark up, note, note down, notice, quote, take, take down, to note, to notice, write down), niederdrücken (bear down, depress, flatten, oppress, press, press down, push, to oppress), kleinkriegen (break, bring into line, chop, smash), hinuntersteigen, hinunterkommen, heruntersteigen, herunterkommen (become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, come down, descend, go downhill, go to rack and ruin), aufstehen (arise, be open, get off, get up, rise, stand, stand on, stand up, to arise, to arise (arose, to get up, to rise, to stand up, uprise), aufschreiben (book, chalk up, list, make a note, note, note down, prescribe, put down, put on the slate, shove down, take smb.'s particulars, to mark down, to take down, write, write down). (various references)

Greek 

έρχομαι σε. (various references)

Hungarian

lehangol (cast down, depress, distress, hump, it gives me the blues, to cast down, to deject, to disconcert, to distress, to get sy down, to hip, to hump, to unman), leemel (get off, pull off, to get down, to get off), leér (to come down). (various references)

Italian

scendere (alight, come down, decrease, descend, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get off, get out, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降る (to descend, to fall, to get down, to precipitate), 下る (to descend, to get down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

く� る (to descend, to get down). (various references)

Manx

sleaghtey (kneel, kneeling), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, raze, run down, topple, tumble), geddyn neose. (various references)

Occitan

davalar (descend, go down). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

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

Romanian

da jos (knock, overthrow, spill, strip), înghiţi (bolt, devour, engulf, get over, gobble, ingurgitate, lump, pocket, swallow, swig). (various references)

Russian 

сходить (alight, come off, come off smth., descend, descended, sloughed, sloughs, step down), слезть (dismount), слезать (climb down, come off smth., get off), спускаться (alight, come down, descend, get off, go down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapisati (inscribe, note, note down, pencil, record, scroll, write down), skinuti (decorticate, divest, do away, doff, pull off, remove, shed, skim, strip, take down, take off, throw off, unfix, unhang, vail), sići (alight, climb down, come down, descend, get off, get out, go down, light, step down), prionuti (set to, wire in). (various references)

Spanish

descolgar (abstract, let down, pick up, take away, take down, unhang), abocarse, abordar (accost, accosts, approach, board, collide with, come up to, crash into, engage, land, nobble, tackle), apuntar (aim, appear, break, enter, get at, jot down, lay, leak, level, log, make a note, Mark, mark down, mark up, note, point, prompt, put down, record, register, remark, score, set down, sight, train, turn up, write down), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come 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 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), bajarse, abocar, desanimar (damp, dampen, demoralize, despond, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, put off), tragar (engulf, pouch, stomach, suck down, swallow, swallow down, swallow up), empezar a estudiar (get around), no poder, poner (add, adjust, affix, alight, append, arrange, attach, bet, call, clap, connect, contribute, deposit, do, dress, drop, encase, enclose, entangle, expend, fasten, get on, give, give in, impawn, impose, inclose, insert, instal, install, invest, job, jug, kick out, land, lay, lay down, light, make, open, perform, place, play back, pose, post, provoke, put, put down, put into, put on, put out, put through, put up, raise, read, send, set, set up, slip on, stake, stand, start, stick, stick down, Stow, suppose, switch on, tag on, take, take along, throw in, translate, turn on, wear), poner por escrito (put down, set down, write, write down), ponerse (attitudinize, become, begin, come over, commence, Don, draw on, dress, garb, get, get dressed, get into, get on, go, go down, go in, gown, grow, jump on, live, pose, pull on, put forward, put on, put on airs, put oneself, slip on, start, tag on, throw on, turn, turn about, turn around, up, wax, wear), ponerse a estudiar, deprimir (depress, oppress). (various references)

Swedish

gå ner (descend, down, fall off, go down, reduce, set), få ner, anteckna (commit to writing, enter, jot, jot down, make a note, mark down, note, put down, write down). (various references)

Turkish

sadede gelmek (come to the point, get down to brass tacks, hark back), en düşük seviyeye inmek (get down to rock bottom), asıl meseleye gelmek (get down to brass tacks, get down to the nitty-gritty). (various references)

Ukrainian

спускатися (alight, come down, descend, go down, hang down, walk down). (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

-1 letter: gowned, tonged, wonted.

-2 letters: endow, godet, noted, owned, toned, towed, wodge.

-3 letters: dent, doge, done, dong, dote, down, enow, gent, gone, gowd, gown, newt, node, note, nowt, owed, tend, toed, tone, tong, town, wend, went, wont.

-4 letters: den, dew, doe, dog, don, dot, dow, ego, end, eng, eon, ged, gen, get, god, got, net.

+2 letters: downstage, outgnawed.

+3 letters: downstages.

+4 letters: groundwater, undergrowth.

+5 letters: groundwaters, undergrowths.