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Come down
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To descend, fall down, collapse. intransitive
"A tree came down and hit me on the head."
- 2 get sick wordnet
- 3 To be demolished. intransitive
"The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down."
- 4 be the essential element wordnet
- 5 To decrease. intransitive
"Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom."
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- 6 criticize or reprimand harshly wordnet
- 7 To reach or release a decision. intransitive
"I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project."
- 8 move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way wordnet
- 9 To be passed through time. intransitive
"Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs."
- 10 fall from clouds wordnet
- 11 To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion. idiomatic, intransitive
"He finally came down from his post-bonus high."
- 12 To rain. UK, impersonal
"It's coming down heavily now."
- 13 To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university. UK, intransitive
"Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford."
- 14 Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire.
- 15 To behave in a particular way. intransitive, slang
"He's been coming down angry all day."
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