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comedown
[ kuhm-doun ]
noun
- an unexpected or humiliating descent from dignity, importance, or wealth.
comedown
/ ˈkʌmˌdaʊn /
noun
- a decline in position, status, or prosperity
- informal.a disappointment
- slang.a depressed or unexcited state
verb
- to come to a place regarded as lower
- to lose status, wealth, etc (esp in the phrase to come down in the world )
- to reach a decision
the report came down in favour of a pay increase
- often foll by to to be handed down or acquired by tradition or inheritance
- to leave college or university
- foll by with to succumb (to illness or disease)
- foll by on to rebuke or criticize harshly
- foll by to to amount in essence (to)
it comes down to two choices
- slang.to lose the effects of a drug and return to a normal or more normal state
- informal.(of a river) to flow in flood
Word History and Origins
Origin of comedown1
Example Sentences
That’s an even more dramatic comedown than the one from Mitchell to Conley.
The NCT, then, represented the slow postnuptial comedown, when the establishment of rhythms and routines isn’t always fun but is necessary for a shared goal.
Most psychedelic therapy playlists follow the arc of a calm, gentle start as the drug kicks in, building up to more intense music while the psychedelic has its peak effects, followed by a gradual return to softer music during the comedown.
One is as a big comedown from the size of the crowds that watched her on broadcast television.
I mean to land up in Minsk, working in a grubby little factory is quite a comedown.
I got the impression he was a bitter man because, I imagine when he defected to Russia, it was comedown.
Poor Peggy—it was rather a comedown after her fairy visions.
"So long as nobody in society hears of this sudden comedown, we shall pull through," he said.
And at Anagni he may certainly rest for the night, though his quarters may be a comedown not only from Rome but from Velletri.
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