See let down in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "I promised him I would meet him there, and I will not let him down.",
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"ref": "1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1065:",
"text": "Just as they left, the younger of the two turned around and said, \"Mr. President, I just want you to know that we're praying for you,\" and quickly closed the door behind him.\nI thought about these two men, and about the office workers that afternoon, and about the millions of others like them all across the country who still had faith in me. I knew that by resigning I would let them down.",
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"text": "Sooner or later / You hit the deck, you get found out / Save it for later / Don't run away and let me down",
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"ref": "2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of \"rewarding Avanti's failure\"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:",
"text": "ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said: \"AWC has continued to cancel services and, every day, continued to let passengers down. But the Government doesn't seem to care.",
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"word": "辜負"
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"word": "對不起"
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"word": "rozczarować"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to lengthen by undoing and resewing",
"word": "auslassen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to lengthen by undoing and resewing",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "herauslassen"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to lengthen by undoing and resewing",
"word": "alargar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce one's level of effort",
"word": "antaa periksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce one's level of effort",
"word": "ausbremsen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce one's level of effort",
"word": "beeinträchtigen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce one's level of effort",
"word": "erschweren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to reduce one's level of effort",
"word": "zurückhalten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to soften in tempering",
"word": "temperoida"
}
],
"word": "let down"
}
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