Dictionary entry details
• COME DOWN (verb)
Meaning:
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
go down; descend; come down; fall
Context examples:
The temperature is going down / The barometer is falling / The curtain fell on the diva / Her hand went up and then fell again
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
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,)
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)
flop (fall suddenly and abruptly)
crash (fall or come down violently)
prolapse (slip or fall out of place, as of body parts)
abseil; rappel; rope down (lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside)
dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse (get off (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)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to come down
Meaning:
Be the essential element
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
boil down; come down; reduce
Context example:
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
become; turn (undergo a change or development)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Meaning:
Fall from clouds
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
come down; precipitate; fall
Context examples:
rain, snow and sleet were falling / Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
"Come down" entails doing...:
condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
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)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Get sick
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
sicken; come down
Context example:
She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
decline; worsen (grow worse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
wan (become pale and sickly)
contract; get; take (be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness)
canker (become infected with a canker)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Criticize or reprimand harshly
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The critics came down hard on the new play
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
