COME DOWN | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of come down in English

come down

phrasal verb with come verb uk /kʌm/ us /kʌm/ came | come

(LAND)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 to fall and land on the ground: A lot of trees came down in the storm. Our plane came down in a field. The snow came down during the night.

• The rain came down heavily all day.
• Their plane came down in bad weather.
• A number of radio masts came down in the winds.
• The church's steeple came down in the storm.
• All the leaves have come down now.

Arriving, entering and invading

• access code
• annex
• annexation
• be on the scene idiom
• been
• break
• ingress
• interloper
• intrude
• intrude on something
• intrusion
• jump
• reinvade
• reinvasion
• reoccupation
• reoccupy
• rock up phrasal verb
• roll
• scene
• turn

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(LOWER LEVEL)

B2 If a price or a level comes down, it becomes lower: House prices have come down recently. Inflation is coming down. to become smaller or less

• decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment.
• lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease.
• lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join.
• reduceThey've just reduced the price.
• bring downThey are bringing down their prices.
• dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.

See more results » informal to feel less excited after a very enjoyable experience: The whole weekend was so wonderful I haven't come down yet.

• The price of computers has come down a lot.
• Her temperature is starting to come down at last.
• He feels that standards of literacy have come down.
• Unemployment levels have come down dramatically.

Becoming and making smaller or less

• abridgment
• attenuate
• attenuated
• attenuating
• attenuation
• condense
• deflate
• deflation
• drain on something
• dwindle
• dwindling
• ease
• ease someone's mind idiom
• halve
• prune
• pull
• pull back phrasal verb
• push something up/down phrasal verb
• rarefy
• trough

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Disappointing yourself and others

(REMOVAL)

to be removed: Now that the scaffolding has come down, you get a better idea of what the building will look like. If we're going to live here, those curtains will have to come down. Those pictures will have to come down (= be removed from the wall). Removing and getting rid of things

• abandonment
• banish
• be scattered to the four winds idiom
• bin
• cast someone/something aside/away/off phrasal verb
• dispense
• dumping
• eradication
• eradication of something
• erasure
• evacuate
• evacuate someone from something
• fling
• leach
• scatter
• scrape
• scraping
• see the back of someone/something idiom
• shed
• shedding

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(SUPPORT)

[ + adv/prep ] to decide that you support a particular person or side in an argument, etc.: come down on the side of The government has come down on the side of military action. Backing, supporting & defending

• adopt
• advocacy
• affirmation
• ally yourself to/with someone phrasal verb
• argumentation
• bail out phrasal verb
• bat
• championship
• commitment
• defensible
• espouse
• hold space idiom
• in defence of someone/something
• in favour of something/doing something
• in someone's corner idiom
• lapel badge
• sympathize
• thick
• uphold
• yimby

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(DRUGS)

informal If a person comes down from a drug, they stop feeling its effects. Drugs - general words

• abstinence
• abstinence-only
• altered state of consciousness
• anti-drug
• bindle
• bong
• crank
• dope
• freebase
• galenical
• gateway drug
• high on something
• hot box
• spike
• titrate
• toke
• trippy
• wasted
• wean
• wean someone off something phrasal verb

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(UNIVERSITY)

UK old-fashioned If you come down (from a college or university, especially Oxford or Cambridge University), you leave your studies either permanently or for a short time. University & college education

• academe
• academia
• ancient university
• anti-university
• assistantship
• go up phrasal verb
• grad
• graduate
• graduate assistant
• graduate from something
• Open University
• Oxbridge
• Oxon
• Panhellenic
• pass degree
• UCAS
• undergrad
• uni
• university
• unselective

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Departing

(TRAVEL SOUTH)

to go to a place that is south of where you live: come down from My boyfriend's coming down from Scotland this weekend.come down to They don't come down to London much because it's too tiring with the kids. Visiting

• attraction
• beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
• been
• call (in) on someone phrasal verb
• call by phrasal verb
• drop
• exchange
• hang with someone
• hangout
• happen
• happen along/by (somewhere) phrasal verb
• haunt
• pay
• regular
• round
• sojourn
• state visit
• stay
• stomping ground
• stop by (somewhere) phrasal verb

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come down | American Dictionary

come down

phrasal verb with come verb us /kʌm/ past tense came us/keɪm/ | past participle come Add to word list Add to word list to become lower in position or value: I am not going to buy any more coffee until the price comes down. (Definition of come down from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

come down | Business English

come down

phrasal verb with come verb uk /kʌm/ us Add to word list Add to word list [ I ] if a price or a level comes down, it becomes lower: We are expecting interest rates to come down.come down by a third/50%/a lot, etc. Sales went up and costs came down by about a third.come down from sth The share price came down from its high pretty quickly. (Definition of come down from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of come down

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  • Phrasal verb 
    • come down (LAND)
    • come down (LOWER LEVEL)
    • come down (REMOVAL)
    • come down (SUPPORT)
    • come down (DRUGS)
    • come down (UNIVERSITY)
    • come down (TRAVEL SOUTH)
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• Business   Phrasal verb

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