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"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tocharian B translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ugaritic translations",
"en:Education"
],
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"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "come-down"
},
{
"tags": [
"noun"
],
"word": "comedown"
},
{
"word": "come down on"
},
{
"word": "come down to"
},
{
"word": "come down with"
},
{
"word": "come down with one's dust"
},
{
"word": "come down with the dust"
}
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"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
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{
"text": "A tree came down and hit me on the head.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 45:9:",
"text": "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:",
"text": "No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995, “Goldfinger”, performed by Ash:",
"text": "I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain is coming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To descend, fall down, collapse."
],
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[
"descend",
"descend"
],
[
"fall down",
"fall down"
],
[
"collapse",
"collapse"
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],
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"(intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse."
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be demolished."
],
"links": [
[
"demolished",
"demolished"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be demolished."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To decrease."
],
"links": [
[
"decrease",
"decrease"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To decrease."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "The decision in Doe v. Smith came down this morning.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reach or release a decision."
],
"links": [
[
"decision",
"decision"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To reach or release a decision."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be passed through time."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be passed through time."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He finally came down from his post-bonus high.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:",
"text": "In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then you come down",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would never come down.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer:",
"text": "Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion."
],
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English impersonal verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's coming down heavily now.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rain."
],
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(impersonal, UK) To rain."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24:",
"text": "Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university."
],
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[
"graduate",
"graduate"
],
[
"university",
"university"
],
[
"Oxbridge",
"Oxbridge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire."
],
"links": [
[
"come down the (pike, line, etc.)",
"come down the pike#English"
],
[
"happen",
"happen"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's been coming down angry all day.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To behave in a particular way."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nizil",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "نزل"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "下來"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiàlái",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "下来"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiàng",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "降"
},
{
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "hꜣj",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "h-A-D54"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "fall",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "kaatua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "descend",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "laskeutua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "descendre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "tomber"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "herunterkommen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "katérkhomai",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "κατέρχομαι"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "ísligh"
},
{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "fall dung"
},
{
"alt": "おりる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oriru",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "降りる"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "naeryeooda",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "내려오다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "descendō"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "midina"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "mianjera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "descend",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spuskatʹsja",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "спускаться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spustitʹsja",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "спуститься"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "fall",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "padatʹ",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "падать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "upastʹ",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упасть"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "falla ned"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "kārp-"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "düşmek"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "yrd",
"sense": "descend, fall",
"word": "𐎊𐎗𐎄"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be demolished",
"word": "purkaa"
},
{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "be demolished",
"word": "knock dung"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "be demolished",
"word": "gå ned"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "be demolished",
"word": "çökmek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "decrease",
"word": "laskea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "decrease",
"word": "alentua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "decrease",
"word": "chuter"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "decrease",
"word": "ísligh"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "decrease",
"word": "azalmak"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "reach a decision",
"word": "päättää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reach a decision",
"word": "faire son choix"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be passed through time",
"word": "välittyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be passed through time",
"word": "être transmis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "return from an elevated state of consciousness",
"word": "laskeutua"
}
],
"word": "come down"
}
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