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come down   (TTS Sound)

The noun comedown has 1 sense

• comedown -- (decline to a lower status or level)

The verb come down has 5 senses

• descend, fall, go down, 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")


• reduce, come down, boil down -- (be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise")


• precipitate, come down, fall -- (fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum")


• sicken, come down -- (get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital")


• come down -- (criticize or reprimand harshly; "The critics came down hard on the new play")