come down
(LAND)
B2 to fall and land on the ground:
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- The rain came down heavily all day.
- Their plane came down in bad weather.
- A number of radio masts came down in the winds.
- The church's steeple came down in the storm.
- All the leaves have come down now.
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Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- hit
- hove
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch invasion
- rock
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(LOWER LEVEL)
B2 If a price or a level comes down, it becomes lower:
informal to feel less excited after a very enjoyable experience:
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- The price of computers has come down a lot.
- Her temperature is starting to come down at last.
- He feels that standards of literacy have come down.
- Unemployment levels have come down dramatically.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- nip
- slash
- step sth down
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
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(SUPPORT)
[ + adv/prep ] to decide that you support a particular person or side in an argument, etc.:
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Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- right behind sb idiom
- speak
- sponsor
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- sympathize
- sympathy
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(DRUGS)
informal If a person comes down from a drug, they stop feeling its effects.
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Drugs - general words
- chase
- chems
- crank
- detox
- dope
- doped up
- gear
- jacked up
- legal high
- OD
- overdose
- peddler
- shot
- snort
- soft
- spliff
- spliff up
- stoned
- trip
- whacked
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(UNIVERSITY)
UK old-fashioned If you come down (from a college or university, especially Oxford or Cambridge University), you leave your studies either permanently or for a short time.
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University & college education
- academe
- academia
- business school
- campus
- Cantabrigian
- go up
- grad
- graduate
- grove
- hall of residence
- honour
- intercollegiate
- rector
- red-brick
- registrar
- semester
- sorority
- student union
- trimester
- varsity
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(TRAVEL SOUTH)
to go to a place that is south of where you live: