Talk Down

Definitions: Talk Down

Talk Down

Verb

1. Belittle through talk.

2. Speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child; "He talks down to her".

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

Crosswords: Talk Down

Talk down my guard ("Your Little Secret"; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

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

Books

• I Don't Talk Down to Kids: Poetry for Middle and High School Students (With a Special Section for Children (reference)

• Talk Down (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "talk down": talk down to ♦ talk down to one's audience. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏إحتقر (despise, misprise, misprize, pooh pooh, scorn, trifle with), ‏إستخف (belittle, despise, disesteem, disparage, disregard, neglect, pass over, pooh pooh, slight, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), ‏أفحم (confound). (various references)

Bulgarian 

говоря снизходително, омаловажавам (belittle, decry, denigrate, discount, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minify, minimize, palliate, play down, stultify, understate, whittle away), надприказвам (out-talk), запушвам устата на (gag). (various references)

Czech

umluvit (coax, stipulate), překřièet (drown, hoot down, shout down). (various references)

French

convaincre (talk around), aider � atterrir par radio contrôle. (various references)

Greek 

μιλώ συγκαταβατικά (talk down to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזלזל (decry, degrade, despise, disparage, disregard, look down on, slight, underrate), ל�"שתיק ב�"בורים. (various references)

Hungarian

túlkiabál (to shout down, to talk down), túlbeszél (to talk down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遣り込める (to talk down), 遣りつける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), 遣り付ける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), 言い込める (to argue down, to talk down), 言い� める (to argue down, to talk down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いい�"める (to argue down, to talk down), やりつける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), やり�"める (to talk down). (various references)

Pig Latin

alktay ownday.(various references)

Romanian

vorbi pe înţelesul cuiva (talk down to one's audience), reduce la tãcere (extinguish, floor, put down, put to silence, reduce to silence, silence, squelch, strangle), face pe cineva sã tacã. (various references)

Russian 

перекричать (outvoice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prilagoditi svoj način govora. (various references)

Spanish

tratar en (handle, serve, tear), reducir al silencio (silence), rebajar (abase, abate, bring down, cheapen, cut, cut down, debase, decry, deduct, deflate, demean, depress, discount, dismount, dock, gear down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, mark down, rebate, reduce, take away, take from, take off, undercut, write down), quitar importancia, haber callar, darse aires (give oneself airs, put on airs, queen it), controlar (audit, censor, censure, check, check up on, control, direct, get under, monitor, supervise, talk through, verify), censurar (animadvert, blame, blue pencil, censor, censure, condemn, criticize, decry, deprecate, dispraise, impeach, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, take up, talk out, talk through, view). (various references)

Swedish

prata omkull. (various references)

Turkish

konuşarak kör iniş yaptırmak, konuşarak bastırmak, baskın çıkmak (euchre, extinguish, preponderate, preponderate over, surpass, trump), aşağılamak (abase, belittle, give smb. the wall, humiliate, insult, pooh pooh, scorn, take down). (various references)

Ukranian 

перекричати (outcry, outvoice). (various references)

Misspellings

"Talk Down" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: talkdown. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dalton.

-3 letters: adown, dotal, nodal, notal, talon, tolan, tonal, waldo, woald.

-4 letters: alow, alto, awol, dank, dato, dawk, dawn, dawt, doat, dolt, dona, down, kaon, knot, know, koan, kola, land, lank, lawn, load, loan, lota, lown, nota, nowt, talk, tank, toad, tola, told, town, walk, wand, want, woad, wold, wonk, wont.

-5 letters: ado, alt, and, ant, awl, awn, dak, dal, daw, dol, don, dot, dow, kat, koa, lad, lat, law, lot, low, naw, nod, not, now, oak, oat, oka, old, owl, own, tad, tan, tao, taw, tod, ton, tow, twa, two, wad, wan, wat, wok, won, wot.

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