Usually means: Decrease, reduce, or descend gradually.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. come down: Merriam-Webster
  2. come down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  5. come down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. Come Down (Toad the Wet Sprocket song), Come Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. come down: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  13. come down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. come down: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. come down: Legal dictionary

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  1. come down: Encyclopedia

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  1. come down, come down, come down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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  3. Come Down: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come down)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be demolished.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To decrease.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To reach or release a decision.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be passed through time.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.
▸ verb:  (impersonal, UK) To rain.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
▸ verb:  Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way.

Similar:
fall, descend, reduce, precipitate, boil down, sicken, go down, downcome, down, fall down, more...

Opposite:
go up, ascend, rise, climb

Types:
comedown, crash, withdrawal, hangover, afterglow, more...

Phrases:
come down with, come down on, come down to, come down the pike, come back down to earth, more...

Adjectives:
down, facedown, downtrod, d, ebb, lower, downfallen, cadent, fallen, fade, downcast



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Similar:
fall, descend, reduce, precipitate, boil down, sicken, go down, downcome, down, fall down, more...

Opposite:
go up, ascend, rise, climb

Types:
comedown, crash, withdrawal, hangover, afterglow, more...

Phrases:
come down with, come down on, come down to, come down the pike, come back down to earth, come on down, come down on the side of, come down to earth, to come down, to come down upon, Love Come Down, more...

Adjectives:
down, facedown, downtrod, d, ebb, lower, downfallen, cadent, fallen, fade, downcast



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