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English verb: come down | |||
| 1. | come down (motion) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | ||
| Samples | The temperature is going down. The barometer is falling. The curtain fell on the diva. Her hand went up and then fell again. | ||
| Examples | The airplane is sure to come down | ||
| Synonyms | descend, fall, go down | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | go, locomote, move, travel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abseil, alight, avalanche, cascade, cascade down, climb down, correct, crash, decline, dismount, dive, drip, drop, flop, get down, get off, go down, go down, go under, go under, light, pitch, plop, plunge, plunk, pounce, precipitate, prolapse, rappel, roll down, rope down, set, settle, sink, sink, slump, subside, swoop, topple, tumble, unhorse | ||
| Antonyms | ascend, go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise, go up | ||
| 2. | come down (change) be the essential element | ||
| Samples | The proposal boils down to a compromise. | ||
| Synonyms | boil down, reduce | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | become, turn | ||
| 3. | come down (weather) fall from clouds | ||
| Samples | Rain, snow and sleet were falling. Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum. | ||
| Synonyms | fall, precipitate | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | hail, rain, rain down, sleet, snow, spat | ||
| Entail | condense, distil, distill | ||
| Verb group | fall | ||
| 4. | come down (body) get sick | ||
| Samples | She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital. | ||
| Synonyms | sicken | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decline, worsen | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | canker, contract, get, take, wan | ||
| 5. | come down (communication) criticize or reprimand harshly | ||
| Samples | The critics came down hard on the new play. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart | ||
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