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(v)
(intransitive) To decrease.
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(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
To move toward the speaker.
(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
(intransitive) (figurative) To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
(n)
The act of declining or refusing something.
(adj)
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
(transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
To disembark from an airplane.
(intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
To exit a form of transportation such as a boat, ship, airplane, trolley, streetcar or spaceship.
(transitive) To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
(intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
A lower section of a road or geological feature.
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
To conclude or resolve (something):
A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
A slender wax candle.
(intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
(intransitive) To swim under water.
(intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
(intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
(transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(adv)
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
(transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
(intransitive) To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
(idiomatic) To entirely depend upon a single factor; basically, ultimately or in essence.
(ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
A lower level.
Something which is limp or sagging.
(rare, nonstandard) To climb down.
A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
(transitive, idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
(intransitive) To cease to support a person or cause.
A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
Any gradual movement towards a lower state or value.
(idiomatic, sometimes followed by from) To abandon, withdraw from, or soften a previously expressed opinion, argument, etc.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, down.
Misspelling of condescend. [(intransitive) (obsolete) To come down or go down; to descend.]
(idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
(archaic) To dismount; to get off.
A temporary failure; a slip.
To lower to the same level or status.
(intransitive, nautical) To go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship.
(obsolete) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
To demote, or be demoted, to a lower level.
(transitive) To push under or below.
(transitive) To demote
The lowest part of anything.
(intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
(transitive) To make (something) lower (especially of clothes).
A downward slant.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
(transitive) To make smaller.
A rushing down.
(intransitive) To become less or fewer.
(ecology, medicine) The process or result of being gradually decomposed; rot, decomposition.
(intransitive) To bend or stretch downward.
An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
Alternative form of dreep. [(Scotland) To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.]
(intransitive) To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
(transitive, chiefly linguistics) To lower in rank.
(idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
Toward the lower part of a stream; with the current (of a river, brook, or other flow of fluid).
(intransitive) To fall to the ground. To collapse.
(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
(transitive) To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
(transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
(idiomatic) To worsen or degenerate.
(grammar, rare, nonstandard) Synonym of decline.
To climb down a climbing route, often for endurance training.
(transitive) To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
(obsolete) To flow down.
(idiomatic) To betray a person; to conspire against someone for personal gain.
(idiomatic) To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
(intransitive) To gradually subside or diminish.
(intransitive) To go slower.
A downdraft.