Let Down

Definition: Let Down

Let Down

Verb

1. Move something or somebody to a lower position.

2. Fail to meet the hopes or expectations of.

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Synonyms: Let Down

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.

Crosswords: Let Down

Love of my life, let down your lustrous locks (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore)

Baby, won't you let down your guard (Stay The Night; performing artist: Imx)

Let Down Your Aerial (1949)

Let down (performing artist: Radiohead)

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Books

• Let Down Your Hair (reference)

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Conductivity-Temperature-Depth measuring instrument being let down to the water surface. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

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They arrived, the carriage turned, the step was let down, and Mr. Elton, spruce, black, and smiling, was with them instantly

That he, Fauchelevent, would nail up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and let down the body into the vault

Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship, and the rock

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Human Rights

United Kingdom

Some family members of the victims initiated a civil action in November against individuals identified as suspects in a documentary prepared by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In December the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland released a report on the Omagh bombing, which charged that the "victims, their families, and officers of the RUC [PSNI] have been let down by defective leadership, poor judgment and a lack of urgency." The report criticized inadequate information sharing within the police and concluded that it will never be known whether the bombing could have been prevented if the police had acted differently in response to intelligence information received prior to the tragedy. (references)

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Expression using "let down": to let down. Additional references.

Albanian

lëshoj flokët, lë në baltë (ditch, fail, leave in the lurch), zgjat (delay, elongate, extend, hold out, last, lengthen, linger, postpone, prolong, protract, reach, reach out, spread, stretch, telescope), zgjas (carry over, delay, drag out, draw out, elongate, extend, lengthen, postpone, project, prolong, protract, spin out, spread, stretch), ul palën, poshtëroj (abase, demean, humble, humiliate, lower, mortify, vituperate, wipe the floor with), ngadalësoj (decelerate, hold up, loose, make slower, put back, retard, slack up, slacken), gaboj (betray, cheat, deceive, delude, disappoint, err, fraud, lapse, make a mistake, mistake, seduce, swindle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏ترك له الحبل على الغارب, ‏ذل (abase, be low, debase, degradation, demean, humble, humbleness, humiliate, ignominy, lowness, mortify, prostration), ‏خيب الأمل (disappoint, disillusion, dissatisfy, miss fire), ‏خذل (blackball), ‏أسقط (bring down, discount, dump, head off, kill, knock over, lay low, leave out, let fall, lodge, mow, omit, overthrow, overturn, parachute, project, push down, push over, screw off, shed, toss). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смъквам (bring down, divest, pull down, rip away, rip off, shuffle off, tear down, tear off, throw off), разочаровам (disappoint, disenchant, disillusion, disillusionize, fail, frustrate), оставям на сухо, изневерявам на (two time). (various references)

Chinese 

辜� (disappoint, fail to live up to). (various references)

Czech

vypustit (deflate, drain, launch, let off, let out, release, run off), spustit (activate, cast, drop, have down, take down, trigger off, turn on), prodloužit (elongate, extend, lengthen, produce, prolong, pull out, renew), podvést (cheat, deceive, defraud, double cross, dupe, fool, guile, pluck, rope, swindle, take advantage of, victimize). (various references)

Danish

nedstigning (descensus, descent), formindskelse af rivepasta, færdigblanding. (various references)

Dutch

daling (landing), afmengen, afdunnen. (various references)

Finnish

let down, laskea alas (lower), laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let go, lower, reckon, set, work out), tuottaa jollekulle pettymys, pettää (betray, cheat, deceive, delude), korkeudenvähennys, jälkilisäys. (various references)

French

traiter avec méprise, mépriser, faire faux bond � , dilution de la pâte de broyage, descente (letting down), décevoir, déception, baisser (lessen), allongement (length/beam ratio (L/B), lengthening), abandonner (leave, leave off, leave out, let go). (various references)

German

länger machen (lengthen), Sinkflug beim Anflug, Sinkanflug, Mahlgutverminderung, im stich lassen (abandon, betray, desert, leave in the lurch, maroon, to desert, to leave in the lurch, to maroon), hinunterlassen (lower), herunterlassen (lower, take down), herunterklappen (turn down), herablassen, fertigmischen, enttäuschen (belie, betray, deflate, disappoint, disenchant, fail, set straight, to disappoint), auslassen (drop, ignore, leave alone, leave off, leave out, let go, let off steam, let out, melt, Miss, miss out, omit, omitting, release, skip, to leave out, vent, wreak). (various references)

Greek 

κατεβάζω (bring down to, draw down, get down, take down), αραίωση (attenuation, rarefaction), απογοητεύω (disappoint, frustrate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלשל (bring down, drop in, insert, lower), לאכזב (disappoint, dissatisfy, miss fire), ל�"ורי�" (bring down, decrease, depress, lower, sink, subtract, take down), �"� מכ�" (depression, lowering). (various references)

Hungarian

leereszt (drain away, drain off, to blow out, to deflate, to dip, to land, to lower, to sluice), leenged (depress, ground, lower, pull down, to deflate, to let down, to lower, to pull down), ruhát leenged, kibont (extricate, loosen, to break open, to disassemble, to disentangle, to loose, to loosen, to solve, to unfold, to unfurl, to unknot, to unloose, to unpin, to untie, to untwist, uncurl, undo, unfurl, unpin, unwrap), elhagy (abandon, desert, forsake, forsaken, forsook, jilt, leave, leave behind, omit, quit, sank, sunk, throw over, to abandon, to desert, to drop out, to fall off, to forsake, to jilt, to leave behind, to mislay, to sink, to throw over). (various references)

Italian

riduzione dell'impasto, discesa (declivity, descent, downhill, drop, fall, slope), calare (cast off, come down, drop, ebb, fall, go down, let oneself down, lose weight, lower, recede, sink, slack off, slacken, slump, subside, wane), abbassare (abase, abate, debase, depress, dip, droop, drop, duck, lower, lower oneself, move down, put down, reduce, sink, soften, stoop, wind down), abbassamento (droop, drop, falling, lower, lowering, reduction, stoop, subsidence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鼻白む (to feel ashamed, to feel let down, to look daunted), 気が抜ける (to be let down, to become stale, to go flat, to lose flavor), か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がっかり (be dejected, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, lose heart), きがぬける (to be let down, to become stale, to go flat, to lose flavor), はなしろむ (to feel ashamed, to feel let down). (various references)

Manx

tayrn neose (moot, pull down, rake up, serve up, slip on), lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, firing, go off, heave, ignore, let, let off, letting, level, loose, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot, shoot up, shooting, slip, suffer, water pipe), lhiggal (let, permissible), lhig sheese, lhig neose (ring down), cur fo (scuttle, sink, tackle person about, weather), cuirr (disseminate, dissemination, grow, implant, invite, plan, set, shoot, shoot as nets, sow). (various references)

Pig Latin

etlay ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

trair (betray, bewray, display, double-cross, fail, sell), penetração/descida, humilhar (abase, abash, bemean, cast down, cheapen, demean, depress, humble, humiliate, lour, lower, mortify, prostrate), estabilização (stabilization), desiludir (deceive, disabuse, disappoint, disillusion, disillusionize, frustrate, set straight, undeceive), desapontar (deceive, disappoint, fail, frustrate, mock, run out on), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, tone down, turn down), alongamento (extension, stretching). (various references)

Romanian

lungi (dilate, dilute, draw out, eke out, extend, lengthen, protract, spin out, stretch), lãsa jos (move down), relaxare (easy, laxity, relaxation), dezumfla (collapse, deflate, subside), dezamãgi (disappoint, disillusion, fail), declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, decline, descent, downhill, ebb, fall, falling off, regress, sunset, wane), decepţiona (balk, disappoint), încetinire (lagging, let up, retardation). (various references)

Russian 

опускать (cast down, depress, down, omit, omiting, pull down, sink, skip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spustiti (bring down, drop, fall, hang up, keep down, lay down, lend, lower, put down, set down, turn down), razočarati (disappoint, disillusion, fail), podbaciti (fail, miscarry), izneveriti (betray, fail). (various references)

Spanish

desinflar (deflate), 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 down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, 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), castigar (afflict, bring to book, castigate, chasten, chastise, corner, penalize, punish, smite, visit), chasco (farce, joke), decepción (anticlimax, deception, disappointment), decepcionar (disappoint, fail, string along), defraudar (belie, betray, dash, deceive, defeat, defraud, embezzle), dejar suelto, descenso (decline, descent, drop, fall, landing, relegation), descolgar (abstract, get down, pick up, take away, take down, unhang), deshinchar, alargar (accord, convey, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch), desilusionar (disabuse, disappoint, disillusion, disillusionize), soltar (come across with, come out with, disengage, drop, extricate, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pay away, pay out, put down, release, set free, shoot, unclasp, unhand), dilución (dilution), fallar (act up, backfire, Bumble, fail, flaw, give out, give up, make a hash of it, misfire, Miss, ruff, rule, trump), faltar (be lacking, be missing, break, default, evoke, fail, fall short, go back on, lack, lacking, leak), hacer más largo, mezcla final, no estar, no presentar, quedar suelto, rebajado (segmental), reducción de la pasta, ser indulgente, desilusión (disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment). (various references)

Swedish

lämna i sticket (fail, forsake), svika (belie, betray, deceive, desert, disappoint, fail, falsify, frustrate, jilt), släppa ner (lower), sänka ner (dip, immerse), göra besviken (disappoint, set straight), fälla ner (shut, turn down), efterblandning, dra ner (make dirty, pull down). (various references)

Thai

แล่นลง (ก่อนจอ�"), ผิ�"หวัง, ทำให้เสื่อมศรัทธา, ทำให้ผิ�"หวัง (betray, disappoint), ทำให้ต่ำลง (lower), ทำงานน้อยลง, ปล่อยลมออก. (various references)

Turkish

yüzüstü bırakmak (abandon, desert, fail, leave in the lurch, leave smb. in the lurch, turn smb. adrift, walk on, walk out on), rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify, wreck), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), hayal kırıklığına uğratmak (chagrin, disappoint, discourage, frustrate), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), atlatmak (beat smb. to it, bypass, circumvent, come through, dish, dodge, escape, get over, give smb. the slip, jump, outride, outwit, overcome, Parry, pull through, put off, shake, skip, slip, stall off, take, throw off, tide over, turn, ward off). (various references)

Turkmen 

myssarmak (lower, wilt). (various references)

Ukrainian

ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, deaden, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), ослаблення (abatement, attenuation, dйtente, debilitation, decay, decrease, depression, derogation, dilution, extenuation, impoverishment, labefaction, letup, prostration), опускати (cast down, decay, demit, down, lower, omit, pull down, put down, sink), погіршення (aggravation, decadence, deterioration, exaggeration, impairment). (various references)

Welsh

disgyn (alight, descend, drop, fall). (various references)

calamus, calites, submittere, summissus (from summitto). (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: letdown.

-1 letter: wonted.

-2 letters: dowel, dwelt, endow, lento, loden, lowed, noted, olden, owlet, owned, toled, toned, towed, towel.

-3 letters: delt, dent, dole, dolt, done, dote, down, enol, enow, lend, leno, lent, lewd, lode, lone, lowe, lown, newt, node, noel, note, nowt, owed, tend, toed, told, tole, tone, town, weld, welt, wend, went, wold, wont.

-4 letters: del.

+1 letter: letdowns, meltdown, wontedly.

+2 letters: meltdowns.

+3 letters: tumbledown, unwontedly.

+4 letters: netherworld, stonewalled, thistledown, trickledown.

+5 letters: counterworld, netherworlds, thistledowns, towardliness.