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Synonyms for come down

Most common

go down decline descend swoop precipitate sicken

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

2. Reduce

reduce, boil down

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To descend, fall down, collapse.

    A tree came down and hit me on the head.

  2. v. 2

    To be demolished.

    The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.

Related words

Phrases
come down on come down with come down to
Other spellings
come-down comedown

Example sentences

  • decline I had to decline the invitation because I was ill.
  • descend The aircraft began to descend toward the runway.
  • swoop He drank a full glass of moonshine in one fell swoop!
  • precipitate The clouds thickened and it started to precipitate.
  • sicken You're a horrible person; you sicken me.

By length

4 letters
fall1
5 letters
swoop1, stoop1
6 letters
reduce2, sicken2
7 letters
decline2, descend2
11 letters
precipitate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (reduce2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
descendre
Italiano
scendere
Deutsch
absteigen