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1. phrasal verbIf you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] I thanked him for the offer but turned it down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine? [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verbWhen you turn down a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you reduce the amount of sound or heat being produced, by adjusting the controls. He kept turning the central heating down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verbIf the rate or level of something turns down, it decreases. [British, journalism] The divorce rate turned down in the 1950s. [VERB PARTICLE] regional note: in AM, use fall More Synonyms of turn down See full dictionary entry for turnturn down in British Englishverb (tr, adverb)1. to reduce (the volume or brightness) of (something) turn the radio down 3. to fold down (a collar, sheets on a bed, etc) adjective turndown4. (prenominal) capable of being or designed to be folded or doubled down noun turndown5. a downturn; a worsening of sales, business, etc turn down in American English 1. USa. to reject (a request, advice, etc.) b. to reject the request, advice, etc. of (someone) 2. to lessen the intensity or volume of (light or sound) by manipulating controls See full dictionary entry for turn Examples of 'turn down' in a sentenceturn down In other languagesturn down British English: turn down / tɜːn daʊn/ VERB If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. After careful consideration I turned the invitation down. - American English: turn down
- Arabic: يَرْفِضُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: recusar
- Chinese: 拒绝
- Croatian: odbiti
- Czech: odmítnout žádost
- Danish: afslå
- Dutch: afwijzen
- European Spanish: declinar volumen
- Finnish: torjua
- French: refuser
- German: herunterdrehen
- Greek: απορρίπτω
- Italian: declinare
- Japanese: 小さくする
- Korean: 거절하다
- Norwegian: avvise
- Polish: opaść
- European Portuguese: recusar
- Romanian: a refuza
- Russian: отказывать(ся)
- Latin American Spanish: rechazar
- Swedish: tacka nej
- Thai: ปฏิเสธ
- Turkish: geri çevirmek
- Ukrainian: відхиляти
- Vietnamese: từ chối
Chinese translation of 'turn down' vt - [request, offer]
拒绝(絕) (jùjué) - [heat, sound]
调(調)低 (tiáodī) - [bedclothes]
垂放 (chuífàng)
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