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Come Down| Verb | 1. | come down - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"prolapse - slip or fall out of place, as of body parts; "prolapsed rectum" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" abseil, rappel, rope down - lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" precipitate - fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" subside, sink - descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" crash - fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea" flop - fall suddenly and abruptly topple, tumble - fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" plop - drop with the sound of something falling into water pitch - fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony" pounce, swoop - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" drip - fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet" | | | 2. | come down - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"become, turn - undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" | | | 3. | come down - fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"fall - descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" rain, rain down - precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding" spat - come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us" snow - fall as snow; "It was snowing all night" hail - precipitate as small ice particles; "It hailed for an hour" sleet - precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet" | | | 4. | come down - get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"wan - become pale and sickly contract, get, take - be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" canker - become infected with a canker | | | 5. | come down - criticize or reprimand harshly; "The critics came down hard on the new play"criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock - find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" | |
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