1. Decline to a lower status or level

1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   - descend, fall, go down 
2. Be the essential element
   - reduce, boil down 
3. Fall from clouds
   - precipitate, fall 
4. Get sick
   - sicken 
5. Criticize or reprimand harshly
   "The critics came down hard on the new play"

Derived forms: coming down, comedowns, came down, come down, comes down

Type of: abasement, become, criticise [Brit], criticize, decline, go, humiliation, knock, locomote, move, pick apart, travel, turn, worsen

Encyclopedia: Come down

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