come down

Definitions of come down
  1. verb
    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
    synonyms: descend, fall, go down
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    Antonyms:
    arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise
    move upward
    ascend, go up
    travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
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    prolapse
    slip or fall out of place, as of body parts
    abseil, rappel, rope down
    lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
    dismount, get down, get off, light, unhorse
    alight from (a horse)
    avalanche, roll down
    gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
    dive, plunge, plunk
    drop steeply
    go down, go under, set
    disappear beyond the horizon
    correct, decline, slump
    go down in value
    precipitate
    fall vertically, sharply, or headlong
    sink, subside
    descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
    crash
    fall or come down violently
    flop
    fall suddenly and abruptly
    topple, tumble
    fall down, as if collapsing
    drop
    to fall vertically
    plop
    drop with the sound of something falling into water
    pitch
    fall or plunge forward
    alight, climb down
    come down
    go down, go under, settle, sink
    go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
    pounce, swoop
    move down on as if in an attack
    drip
    fall in drops
    cascade, cascade down
    rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
    power-dive
    make a power dive
    nosedive
    plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft
    duck
    submerge or plunge suddenly
    crash-dive
    descend steeply and rapidly
    chute, jump, parachute
    jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
    keel over
    turn over and fall
    dump, plunge
    fall abruptly
    plummet, plump
    drop sharply
    flump, flump down
    fall heavily
    settle, subside
    sink down or precipitate
    founder
    sink below the surface
    submerge, submerse
    sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
    decline
    go down
    stoop
    descend swiftly, as if on prey
    type of:
    go, locomote, move, travel
    change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
  2. verb
    fall from clouds
    synonyms: fall, precipitate
    fall
    descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
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    rain, rain down
    precipitate as rain
    spat
    come down like raindrops
    snow
    fall as snow
    hail
    precipitate as small ice particles
    sleet
    precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow
    drizzle, mizzle
    rain lightly
    shower, shower down
    rain abundantly
    patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle
    rain gently
    pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
    rain heavily
  3. verb
    get sick
    synonyms: sicken
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    wan
    become pale and sickly
    contract, get, take
    be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
    canker
    become infected with a canker
    catch
    contract
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    decline, worsen
    grow worse
  4. verb
    criticize or reprimand harshly
    “The critics came down hard on the new play”
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    criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart
    find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
  5. verb
    be the essential element
    synonyms: boil down, reduce
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    type of:
    become, turn
    undergo a change or development
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