Come Down

Verb1.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"
dismount, unhorse, get down, light, get off - get off (a horse)
avalanche, roll down - of snow masses in the mountains
dive, plunge, plunk - drop steeply; "the stock market plunged"
go under, go down, set - disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
slump, correct, decline - go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
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"
climb down, alight - come down; "the birds alighted"
go under, go down, sink, settle - go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
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"
cascade, cascade down - rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
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
decline, worsen - grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
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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