let sth down
— phrasal verb with let uk/let/us/let/verb present participle letting, past tense and past participle let
(CLOTHES)
If you let down a piece of clothing, you make it longer:
My trousers shrank in the wash so I let them down.
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Knitting & sewing
- appliqué
- backing
- baste
- bind
- bobbin
- bodkin
- cable stitch
- handknitted
- hem
- knit
- knitter
- knitting
- needle
- sew sth up
- sewing
- sewing machine
- shorten
- skein
- spinner
- tack
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(AIR)
UK If you let down something filled with air, you cause the air to go out of it:
Someone let my tyres down while I was at the gym.
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- miniaturize
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
- take a tumble idiom
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Removing and extracting