come down

Speech parts

1. come down - Noun

2. come down - Verb

Meaning

be the essential element

get sick

criticize or reprimand harshly

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

fall from clouds

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

come-down

Synonyms

fall descend go down reduce choose decline drop pitch aim decrease collapse crash settle dive sink

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Antonyms

mount rise improve arise climb strengthen

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Hypernyms

become move turn travel decline knock

Hyponyms

wan set take light get cascade

Examples

The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind. Gregory Palamas

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. Germaine Greer

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Continue to do good, and heaven will come down to you. Hawaiian Proverb

You jump up, but you come down all the same. Martinican Proverb

Prayers go up and blessings come down. Yiddish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

come closer to come come come correct come down about one's ears come down about your ears come down by the bucketful