come down
English[edit]
Verb[edit]
come down (third-person singular simple present comes down, present participle coming down, simple past came down, past participle come down)
- (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
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1611, Bible (King James Version), Genesis 45:9:
- Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not.
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- 1995, Ash, Goldfinger
- I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain is coming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.
- A tree came down and hit me on the head.
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- (intransitive) To be demolished.
- The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.
- (intransitive) To decrease.
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Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.
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- (intransitive) To reach a decision.
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I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project.
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- (intransitive) To be passed through time.
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Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.
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- (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
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He finally came down from his post-bonus high.
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- (intransitive, Britain) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
descend, fall
be demolished
decrease
reach a decision
be passed through time
return from an elevated state of consciousness
graduate — see graduate
