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View synonyms for let down

let down

verb

  1. also preposition to lower
  2. to fail to fulfil the expectations of (a person); disappoint
  3. to undo, shorten, and resew (the hem) so as to lengthen (a dress, skirt, etc)
  4. to untie (long hair that is bound up) and allow to fall loose
  5. to deflate

    to let down a tyre

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a disappointment
  2. the gliding descent of an aircraft in preparation for landing
  3. the release of milk from the mammary glands following stimulation by the hormone oxytocin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

But it was a bit of a let-down after getting all warmed up, you know.

After the hanging a temporary reaction took place--a let-down from the hectic, fevered agitations of preceding days.

It was a little let-down to this exalted condition that it had to come within the social bonds of their common every-day lives.

Were you so tired of a little useful work that ye maun greet a let-down with such early rising?

He had gone on hoping from day to day that Barker might not notice the "let-down" in her work, and now the blow had fallen.

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