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单词 to let the side down
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to let the side down
2. To lower in position, intensity, strength, or †value; to depress; to abase, humble. Also, to disappoint; to fail in supporting, aiding, or justifying (a person, etc.); frequently in to let the side down. Also (chiefly U.S.) intransitive, to diminish, deteriorate; to relax.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]
littleOE
setc1000
wanzec1175
lessc1225
allayc1275
wane1297
slaken1303
disincreasec1374
slakec1380
decrease1382
debatea1400
unwaxa1400
wastea1400
adminishc1400
lessenc1400
imminish14..
aslakec1405
minish?a1425
assuagec1430
shrinkc1449
to let down1486
decay1489
diminish1520
fall1523
rebate1540
batea1542
to come down1548
abate1560
stoop1572
pine1580
slack1580
scanten1585
shrivel1588
decrew1596
remit1629
contract1648
subside1680
lower1697
relax1701
drop1730
to take off1776
to run down1792
reduce1798
recede1810
to run off1816
to go down1823
attenuatea1834
ease1876
downscale1945
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)]
swikeOE
beguile1483
deludea1513
disappointa1513
dispointa1513
forsake1526
betray1594
mock1600
frustrate1663
evade1692
elude1694
balk1735
to let down1795
slip1890
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > weaken (something immaterial)
to thin off, downc900
feeblea1340
allayc1450
debilite1483
mollify1496
weak1502
geld?1507
water1529
appale?1530
labefact?1539
debilitate1541
mortify1553
effeeble1571
dilutea1575
soften1576
unsinew1599
melt1600
infringe1604
weaken1609
unbenda1616
dissinew1640
slacken1663
thin1670
resolve1715
imbecilitate1809
imbecile1829
to let down1832
to water down1832
society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of
fall1564
embase1577
to pull down1607
impoverish1611
depreciate1656
to let down1870
slip1961
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > disappoint, frustrate [verb (transitive)] > let down
faila1300
lotea1325
unsecond1616
to let down1913
fizz1941
to fink out on1966
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > be ineffective > in supporting or aiding (a person)
to let the side down1952
society > leisure > [verb (intransitive)] > relax
relax1652
to take it slow and easy1819
to let down1964
1486–1504 Let. in W. Denton Eng. in 15th Cent. (1888) 318 (note D) Yff ye suld support a synglere man to dryue yowr tenants owt and lett downe yowre tenandres [i.e. tenantries] as they doo.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 73 Every slackn'd fiber drops its hold, Like Nature letting down the Springs of Life.
1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1030 Nothing in the world lets down a character more, than that wrong turn.
a1791 J. Wesley Serm. lxii. 15, in Wks. (1811) IX. 161 He lets himself down to our capacity.
1795 E. Burke Let. to W. Elliot in Wks. VII. 348 When I found that the great advocate, Mr. Erskine, condescended to resort to these bumper toasts..I was rather let down a little.
1798 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1846) VI. 62 Poor M. de Narbonne! how will he be shocked and let down!
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 149 This cold laconic note, that, at once, let down all Emma's hopes of surprising her friend agreeably.
1832 Examiner 790/1 Nothing lets down a smart hit so lamentably as a hitching verse or hobbling rhyme.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 187 He was..gently let down from his high position.
1913 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case xv. 307 That's good. I judged you would not let me down.
1924 G. H. L. Mallory in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest 1924 (1925) 217 The oxygen party should not this way be let down by their load failing to arrive at V.
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xii. 110 I leave it to you, Stephen. I know you'll not let me down.
1927 Observer 4 Dec. 16/5 In Europe there is a strong feeling that when America went out of the peace she let Europe down.
1927 Daily Express 12 Dec. 2/4 A boy who lets his group down..is made to feel ashamed of himself.
1952 M. Steen Phoenix Rising i. 22 Why..should she present herself to him against this sordid background..letting down her own side?
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock x. 137 He couldn't guess his Frau was going to let down the side like that.
1969 Guardian 8 Sept. 7/2 ‘House and Garden’ let the side down..by advancing very confident pro-reproduction arguments.
1971 J. Tyndall Death in Lebanon xii. 223 George..let the side down by his boat running out of juice.
1973 D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 20 You have a way of looking at people as if they're about to let the side down.
1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 99 He's my partner... He doesn't let me down, I won't let him down.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 250 This Injun don't seem to know anything but ‘Owry ikky’, and the interest of that begins to let down after it's been said sixteen or seventeen times.1870 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 33 I shall watch this Galaxy business pretty closely, and whenever I seem to be ‘letting down’, I shall withdraw from literature and recuperate.1926 Publishers' Weekly 20 Feb. 563 Sales are increasing instead of letting down.1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Jan. (1970) 45 The meeting had broken up a little after midnight, and after a little letting down..Lyndon had arrived at 2 a.m. for—shall we call it dinner.
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