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(transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
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To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
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(figuratively) To decrease or reduce (something).
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(rare) A lowering to the rank of a devil.
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(transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
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(idiomatic, sometimes hyphenated) An abandonment, withdrawal from, or softening of a previously expressed opinion, policy, argument, etc.
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Alternative form of climb down [(idiomatic, sometimes hyphenated) An abandonment, withdrawal from, or softening of a previously expressed opinion, policy, argument, etc.]
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Alternative form of comedown [A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.]
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A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment or letdown.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To come down.
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(transitive) To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
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(business) An antipattern that leads to an accumulation of less capable members in an organization, due to a disproportionately high rate of more talented members leaving the organization.
n
(obsolete) departure; decrease
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(rare, nonstandard) To climb down.
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(geomorphology) The downward slope of a hill; the downward slope of a curve.
adj
(obsolete) running or extending downwards.
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(zoology, botany) To bend down.
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(obsolete) Descent, the act of descending.
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A rapid decline or deterioration; a tumble.
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(obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
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To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
adj
Descending; going down
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The property of descendence.
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A person or thing that descends.
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(now rare) Descent; the act of descending.
adj
Tending to descend or move downward; descending.
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A bending downward; declivity.
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A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
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Alternative form of take down a notch [(transitive, idiomatic, of a person or organization) To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.]
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To become less virulent or strong; to subside.
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The act of inclining downward.
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To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
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(transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw down; to turn downward.
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(economics) Showing flexibility in a downward direction.
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(rare, poetic) A descent
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(by extension) Deteriorating, getting worse.
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To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
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A slide downward; a worsening.
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(medicine, transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).
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(Scientology) An unsuccessful person who is failing to make progress.
adj
Having a great declivity.
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A downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
adj
downward or further down.
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A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising.
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(linguistics, transitive) To tone down; to make less emphatic or significant; to downplay.
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(intransitive) To undergo a downward trend.
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oppress, suppress, exploit, persecute, step down on; put down; denigrate, subjugate
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(transitive) To reduce in value; to devalue.
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A series of thoughts or actions which feeds back into itself, causing a situation to become progressively worse. It is worse than a vicious circle, which is self-sustaining in its current state.
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In a downward direction
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(intransitive) To reduce in amplitude.
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(idiomatic, intransitive, of nights or evenings) To become dark earlier as a result of seasonal change.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To convey some subject matter in simple terms, avoiding technical or academic language, especially in a way that is considered condescending.
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(intransitive) to fall away or decline
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(intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
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(idiomatic) To slowly disappear.
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Alternative form of fadeout [A gradual disappearance or fading away.]
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(intransitive) To diminish in size, weight, or intensity.
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To go under a marker or limit; to be reduced beyond a certain amount.
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Alternative spelling of falloff [A reduction or decline.]
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(finance) A bond that has declined in value due to credit deterioration to become a junk bond.
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A decrease in something, such as demand.
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(transitive) To reduce the size of something by filing (using the abrasive effects of a file).
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(idiomatic) (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population.
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(intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
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The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
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A decline or fall in standards.
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To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
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(intransitive, idiomatic) to get to a stable level; to cease climbing, descending, or oscillating
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(transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
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(intransitive, finance) To decrease in value.
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(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become low.
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(transitive) To make less elevated
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(idiomatic) to lower one's expectations and accept less than one was hoping for or striving toward
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(idiomatic) to lower the standards of quality that are expected of or required for something.
n
One who lowers something.
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Alternative form of take down a notch [(transitive, idiomatic, of a person or organization) To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.]
n
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
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(idiomatic) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.
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(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
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(intransitive, Britain) To reduce intensity of an activity.
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To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
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(transitive, intransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
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The act of descending again.
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(US, business, euphemistic) A layoff.
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To decline in quality or condition.
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A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.
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(intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
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A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc.
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To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
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To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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(intransitive) To move downwards underneath something.
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(transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
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(intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
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(intransitive) To gradually subside or diminish; to tail off.
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To gradually subside or diminish; to tail away.
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(transitive, idiomatic, of a thing) To cause the quantity, degree, or intensity of something to be decreased.
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(idiomatic) To diminish or lessen gradually; to become smaller, slower, quieter, etc.
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To reduce power to (an engine), reduce speed
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(economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
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(transitive, obsolete) To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
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The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.
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(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
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(idiomatic) To make weaker.
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(intransitive) to diminish in effect
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(transitive) To shut down slowly (by degrees or in phases).
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