英语词汇“to come down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

I. Senses primarily relating to movement in space.

1. intransitive.

a. To move or travel so as to come to a lower place or position, or one regarded as lower; to descend towards a place or person.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)]

styc825

astyc975

alightOE

to fall adownOE

hieldc1275

downcomea1300

sink?a1300

avalec1374

to go downa1375

to come downc1380

dipc1390

descenda1393

clinea1400

declinea1400

downc1400

inclinec1400

vailc1400

fallc1440

devall1477

condescendc1485

to get down1567

lower1575

dismount1579

to fall down1632

down?1701

demount1837

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1121 Þay comen doun of þe tour.

1417 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 13 (MED) So that the water comme downe in a pipe of lede.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5147 When Criste es common doun to deme.

1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 300 Now ther ys com down an habeas corpus for hym.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. xii. 12 The deuell is come downe vnto you.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 70 At length commeth downe from the Pope two Legates.

1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet iii. sig. C2^v Then comes downe mistresse Nurse..in her petticoate and kertle.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 I was just coming down to the Garden-house.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxix. 96 Eight o'clock at Mid-summer, and these lazy varletesses (in full health) not come down yet to breakfast!

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 12 The gentleman that's coming down to court my sister.

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 256/1 The Chancellor of the Exchequer comes down to the House of Commons.

1876 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics Jan. 62 The lever comes down with such a force that would crush railroad iron.

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 170 Tom drove slowly until we were beyond the bend—then his foot came down hard, and the coupé raced along through the night.

1965 Negro Digest June 16 I came down here to ask you to share this task with me.

2010 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 25/3 There is no choice but to clamber on the front of the roller coaster... The safety bar comes down.

b. Of rain, snow, etc.: to fall; (of fog, mist, darkness, etc.) to descend, settle.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily

ropec1450

to ding down1554

to come down1597

to ding onc1650

to rain cats and dogs1661

sile1703

pour1737

teem1753

pepper1767

flood1813

to rain pitchforks1815

rash1824

spate1853

bucket1926

tipplea1930

piss1948

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (intransitive)]

thicka1000

thicken1784

duff1876

to come down1891

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (intransitive)] > come down (of mist or fog)

to come down1891

to shut down1891

1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. C Downe commeth the rayne and setteth the wynde at rest.

1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes Rep. Kingdome of Congo ii. x. 214 This water..commeth downe not in smal drops like our raine, but is powred down (as it were with pailes and buckets).

1617 tr. Ghost of Marquesse d'Ancre sig. B4 After so faire a time, thick showers of rain come downe.

1683 N. Crouch Surprizing Miracles Nature & Art 179 A fierce showr of Rain, which seemed rather to come down in pailfuls, than in the common way.

1763 Beauties Nature & Art Displayed I. iii. 145 At one, the rain came down like a flood, and so continued without intermission till ten o'clock the morning following.

1775 J. Marra Jrnl. Resolution's Voy. 126 In the evening the snow..came down heavily.

1857 Littel's Living Age 21 Feb. 500/1 All day the snow came down.

1891 Longman's Mag. July 238 The fog has come down as black as pitch.

1939 Motor Boating Feb. 10/2 Slowly the light failed, darkness came down, pitch darkness devoid of stars.

1962 G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay (ed. 2) ii. 38 A..heavy mist came down.

2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater ii. 5 The rain was coming down in buckets at that point.

2. intransitive. With on, upon.

a. Of something dispensed by a superior power (such as wrath, vengeance, etc.): to descend from, or as if from, the heavens upon a person or thing, esp. with suddenness or severity. Cf. to come upon —— 1b at Phrasal verbs 2.

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society > authority > strictness > make more strict or severe [verb (transitive)] > be severe upon

to be sharp upon1561

to come down1611

to be severe on (or upon)1672

spitchcock1674

to handle without gloves1827

to handle with gloves off1828

to catch or get Jesse1839

to jump upon1868

to give (one) snuff1890

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > be harsh or severe upon [verb (transitive)]

to be sharp upon1561

to come down1611

to be severe on (or upon)1672

spitchcock1674

to sit hard on1715

to handle without gloves1827

to handle with gloves off1828

to catch or get Jesse1839

to jump upon1868

to give (one) snuff1890

to give (a person) the works1901

hardball1984

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xcvi. f. cxxix/2 O mi god almyghty I beseche the that thy mede fulnesse come downe now vpon me.

1550 T. Paynell Piththy & Notable Sayinges Script. f. lix Like as he is mercyful, so goeth wrath from hym also, and his indignacion commeth downe vpon synners.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxv. 458/2 His wrath came downe vpon you.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms vii. 16 His violent dealing shall come downe vpon his owne pate.

1690 W. Lloyd Expos. Prophecy 57 A Plague..came downe upon them, in the midst of their Jollity.

1730 Some Manifestations & Communications of Spirit by Hannah Wharton 43 To assure the Chosen of God, that all the preparative Work of Wisdom is almost finished and brought to pass, that the Glory of the Lord might come down upon the Works of Wisdom.

1817 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 103 Their prosperity..soon proved to be more apparent than real. At last, the calamity came down upon them.

1830 M. Howitt in Lady's Mag. 31 Oct. 245 But vengeance comes down on the thief at length.

1913 Med. Missionary Aug. 240/1 Persecution came down with great weight upon those who were faithful.

1989 G. Glasse Conc. Dict. Islam 349/2 God's punishment came down upon the people of Thamūd in the form of an earthquake.

2014 G. Orfalea Journey to Sun vi. 89 The Aztecs had finally seen through Cortés; after turning on Montezuma, the brunt of their wrath came down on the pretender-god Spaniard.

b. To attack, esp. suddenly or by surprise; to descend on someone or something with violence. Cf. to come upon —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.

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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > attack suddenly

to come on ——eOE

to come upon ——c1175

to start upon ——a1393

to start on ——a1398

descend?a1425

to come down1539

surprise1548

ambuscade1676

insult1775

swoop1797

Pearl Harbour1943

1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre ii. iv. sig. Evii^v He sente by nighte Marcellus knyghte, with a small power of fotemen..on the backe syde of his ennemies, and..he commanded [them]..to come down [L. descenderent] on the backe side their ennemys, whan they perceyued the battayl began.

1582 A. Fleming tr. St. Bernard in tr. A. Autpertus Monomachie of Motiues 337 What a rebellious troop of enimies come downe vpon vs forceablie.

1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru ii. i. viii. 426 They saw the Indians come down upon them in great numbers.

1695 J. Stevens tr. M. de Faria e Sousa Portugues Asia II. ii. 108 The whole Army came down upon them, and the Portugueses..were forced to retire in disorder.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 294 He saved the Emperor's Life from the Fury of a wild Boar, that had broke the Toyles, and came down upon Otho.

1745 Major Blair Campaign in Saxony 5 The Prince of Anhalt march'd directly towards the Elbe, and..came down on the Austrians and Saxons.

1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. iv. 33 The treacherous enemy comes down upon a sleeping village, and shoots the unsuspecting inhabitants.

1878 C. C. Chapman et al. Hist. Knox County, Illinois 337 Before the army could be brought forward to their support, the whole rebel army came down on them and overwhelmed the whole Division.

1970 R. Ribman in Passing through from Exotic Places 28 I was trying to hold a bunker when the Viet Cong came down on us.

1991 J. R. Elting Amateurs, to Arms! (1995) iv.63 A crowd of drunken, revenge-crazy warriors came down on Frenchtown.

c. To punish or reprimand someone severely.See also to come down on like a thousand of bricks, to come down on like a ton of bricks at brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 3c.

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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely

to-punisha1400

overpunisha1639

to give (a person) hell1836

to give a person what for1852

slate1854

to give it in the neck1881

to come down1888

bean1910

scrub1911

cane1925

to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935

1888 R. A. King Leal Lass I. vi. 117 It's too bad to come down always on you, only because you're such a good fellow.

1972 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) v. 81 If I find out that you've been holding out on me over this identification, I'll come down on you like a pile driver.

1996 J. P. Entelis Culture & Counterculture in Moroccan Polit. 86 The government came down hard on fundamentalists, arresting many leaders, closing down offices, and confiscating journals.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Dec. 20 The world shouldn't come down too harshly on David Cameron for erroneously declaring that his daughter once made him vote for Will Young on The X Factor.

3. intransitive.

a. To collapse or be caused to collapse; (of a building) to be demolished; (of a tree) to be felled.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or be demolished

to-fallc893

to-reosea900

tipc1400

to go together1549

to come downa1552

demolish1610

coincide1673

collapse1732

stave1797

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 75 How or when thes Trees cam doune other be Cutting or Wind Faulle no Manne ther can telle.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 310 There was no remedy, but y^e Pope would nedes haue the Archbyshops new buildyng to come downe.

1644 T. Hill Season for Englands Selfe-reflection 36 The Pope hath been raising himselfe a pompous palace..which must come down, it is designed to ruine.

1743 R. Hurd Let. 5 Feb. in Early Lett. (1995) 97 It [sc. an Elm-Walk] spoils a quick-Hedge it stands in, & therefore must come down.

1796 Gentleman's Mag. June 518/1 In Dean's Yard, Westminster, part of the old ruinous buildings came down by the violence of the wind with a great crash.

1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 109 Large numbers of oaks have recently been felled, and many more are marked to come down.

1868 All Year Round 18 July 135 The roof came down; an avalanche of iron instantly tore walls and gallery down with it.

1904 Weekly Underwriter 3 Dec. 398/1 The old nest of buildings came down, and the first section of the Mutual's great building went up.

1997 Boating Life June 10 The hedge tree needs pruning, and that oak tree has to come down.

2014 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 28 July Many..brought cameras to capture the moment when the 325ft towers at coal-fired Didcot A came down.

b. Of a person or animal: to fall down; to be brought to the ground.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal

to light lowc1225

wendc1300

to seek to the earth or groundc1330

tumblea1375

stretchc1400

to take a fall1413

to blush to the eartha1500

to come down1603

to go to grassa1640

to be floored1826

to take a spilla1845

to come (fall, get) a cropper1858

to hunt grass1872

to come (also have) a buster1874

to hit the deck1954

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures x. 48 Alexander the Apothecarie, riding one day towards London.., his horse fell a plunging, and Alexander came downe.

1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra iii. vi. 70 Eumenes..was thrust upon his hinder quarters, and came down upon the sand with his Master.

1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii. 21 His Horse and he so tired of one another, that they both came down upon the Pavement at the Stable Door.

1803 Pic Nic No. 3. 6 Dr. F—..lost his equilibrium, and came down on the ice.

1890 Field 8 Mar. 363/2 The giraffe he fired at came down.

1905 Wide World Mag. Oct. 525/1 I fell over a stump and came down on my face.

1937 Life 12 Apr. 49/1 His horse..comes down at the last fence of a recent Oxford University point-to-point steeplechase.

2015 L. R. Hieber Eterna Files 18 His heel turned slightly under him and he came down painfully.

c. Of an aircraft: to crash or crash-land.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land > make crash landing

pile1841

to come down1909

crash1912

crash-land1941

prang1943

1909 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily News 26 July 3/7 The young aviator..became excited..and ran into a tree. Aviator and aeroplane came down with a crash.

1919 Aeroplane 9 Apr. 1493/2 Supposing an aeroplane came down in Piccadilly and killed someone.

1975 A. Trew Zhukov Briefing xxi. 190 The light aircraft..had developed engine trouble and came down in the sea.

1992 Flying Mag. Apr. 64/1 In this highly publicized accident, a main rotor blade failed and the helicopter came down beside the garden state parkway.

2016 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 2 A fisherman had seen the plane come down at 12.30pm on Friday, about two kilometres off the Collendina Beach.

4. intransitive. Of a river: to be in flood. Cf. to come down a banker at banker n.³ 4. Now chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and South African.

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1784 Polit. Mag. Feb. 114/2 When the river came down the people of the house fled for safety to a neighbouring hill.

1795 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 400/1 In Leith harbour the river came down with such force and body as to float the shipping though it was low water.

a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) 303 By good luck the river Tweed was not come down, and we crossed it safely at the ford near Norham Castle.

1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. vii. 83 The river had come down the evening on which we had crossed it, and so he had been unable to get the beef or himself home again.

1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness xxxiii. 255 It is twenty years since the Cooper [river] has come down across the bar of the Strzelecki.

1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. I. iii. xiv. 459 From the Kuiseb to the Cunene most of the rivers ‘come down’ two or three times a year, but there is no regularity in the flow.

2011 Queensland Country Life (Nexis) 15 Dec. 70 With only a relatively small area along the river frontage subject to inundation, day to day activity has not been affected by the river coming down.

5. intransitive. To leave university or college, esp. following graduation. Chiefly British, with reference to Oxford and Cambridge universities.

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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (intransitive)] > leave

to come down1839

to go down1852

1839 New-Yorker 9 Feb. 327/3 Wilson, discoursing..about the literary men who flourished there when he first came down from Oxford.

1882 Argosy Jan. 27 William Brook had come down from Oxford just before, his mind made up not to be a clergyman.

1924 London Mercury 10 June 133 He himself was not exactly sent down from Oxford, but found it convenient to come down after one term.

1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 65 He is coming down from Oxford at Easter.

2009 Church Times 28 Aug. 21/5 All students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university—and then another month when they come down!

II. Senses not primarily relating to movement in space.

6. intransitive. To be brought to a lower rank, condition, status, etc.; to be humbled, abased, or degraded.See also to come down a peg at peg n.¹ 3a, to come down in the world at world n. Phrases 16d.

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the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble

to come downa1382

meeka1400

meekena1500

let fall one's crest1531

to come (also get) off one's perch1568

to come down a peg1589

lower1837

to come off the roof1883

to climb down1887

deflate1912

to come, etc., off one's high horse1920

the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > become poor

poor?a1300

to come downa1382

decay1483

to bring haddock to paddock1546

to come to want1590

ruina1600

to come (also go) down in the world1819

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlviii. 18 Cum doun [L. descende] fro glorie, sit in thrist, thou dwelling of the doȝter of Dibon.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxviii. 43 Thou shalt come downe alowe [L. descendes].

1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Ciiij And then shal ye also come doune, doune, And be had no more in estimacion, Laughed to scorne shal ye be with your shauen croune.

1613 W. B. tr. J. de Meung Dodechedron of Fortune 118 For all his aspiring to mount so hie, He may chaunce come down to base beggery.

1708 R. Fleming Christology II. iii. viii. 677 May we not sit down and wonder..that Christ should condescend to come down so low, for our sakes, who were Rebels against God.

1788 J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. Scotl. I. xviii. 274 Henry..might think it prudent to come down even to that mortifying degree of humility.

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 633/2 Some folks who are so high will have to come down a peg.

1889 C. E. L. Riddell Princess Sunshine I. i. 8 They had come down in the world.

1915 Forum Dec. 708 Have I come down so low as to be seen by the charities?

1927 E. P. Mathers tr. Eastern Love I. v. 26 The unfortunate traveller will soon come down to begging by the roadside.

2007 K. Harbaugh in M. J. Putney et al. Dragon Lovers 210 She would find work, even if it were in a brothel. But she could feel her soul shrivel at the thought... It shamed her that she had come down so low.

7. intransitive.

a. To reach or extend down to a point in space; (of a road, path, etc.) to lead down.

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the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have downward direction

to come down1443

propend1545

to set down1747

1443 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 131 That your vayles come downe nyghe to your yene.

1581 T. Nicholas tr. A. de Zárate Discov. & Conquest Peru i. vi. sig. C.iiii^v Their women were garments made of Cotton woll, like vnto gownes which come downe to their feete.

a1589 L. Mascall Bk. Fishing (1590) sig. L Which string comes downe to the bridge.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. i. 353 Their women..whose vpper gownes come no further downe than their middle thighes.

1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra iii. iii. 155 The skirt came down as far as his knee.

1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 165 Their Hair came down to their Ears.

1786 R. Cumberland Observer III. lxv. 44 A close-bellied doublet coming down with a peake behind as far as the crupper.

1834 Royal Lady's Mag. Mar. 60/2 The path came down through a bushy hollow upon the bank above the water.

1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 12/2 The..forest..comes down to the water's edge.

1913 Northwestern Reporter 140 806/2 The stick was wedged in... It came down below the saws about six inches.

1997 ‘S. Shem’ Mount Misery i. 15 A fiftyish..man with thick, curly chestnut hair coming down over his brow like a helmet.

b. To reach or extend forwards to a certain point in history or period of time.

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1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 141 I am now come down in my Writing to this present Saturday, and a deal I have written.

1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 21/2 The latest accounts of the patient come down to the fifteenth day after the operation.

1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iii. v. 614/1 Their narrative comes down to the year 1156.

1908 Nature 16 Jan. 245/1 To come down to later times, Kekulé is said to have become professor of chemistry in Geneva in 1858.

1920 O. F. Morton Hist. Rockbridge County xii. 104 The Recent Period begins with the cessation of hostilities in 1865 and comes down to the present year.

2005 G. Forsythe Crit. Hist. Early Rome. (2006) iii. 68 Diodorus Siculus..wrote a universal history of the ancient world,..beginning with the mythical past and coming down to the year 60 B.C.

8. intransitive.

†a. To be descended by birth. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > be descended [verb (intransitive)]

comeOE

springa1200

ofspringc1300

to be descended (from, of)1399

to run of ——?a1400

descenda1413

proceed?a1439

issuea1450

to come downc1450

outspringa1547

decline1598

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3156 Þat þai ware comen doun of kyngis.

b. To be handed down by tradition or inheritance; to survive from an earlier time to the present.

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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (intransitive)] > endure, remain, persist, or continue > after something else or survive

survive1594

to come down1711

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. f. xxxvii/1 Many thyngys ar there lyke, whyche as holy doctours agree, were taught thappostels by Cryste, & the church by thappostels, and so comen downe to our days by contynuall successyon fro theyrs.

1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning viii. 579 This is an ancient law of the Brittans, & from them come down to our tyme without change or alteration.

1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 158 If he doubted of the truth of it, tell him the authority, by which it comes downe to us in a continued, undistributed, undenied tradition.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 101. ¶7 Nothing of this nature is come down to us.

1762 J. Macpherson Fingal p. xii This custom came down near to our own times.

1836 Fraser's Mag. July 90/1 Thy MSS. have come down to us..ungnawed by the tooth of Time.

1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxxv. 352 The tales had come down from the old heathen times.

1916 Christian Advocate 14 Dec. 1639/1 It is most interesting to study the different portraits of Christ which have come down to us through the years.

1953 Philadelphia Evening Bull. 23 Sept. The slang ‘hoke’ for a gentleman of the road comes down to us from hocus-pocus.

2004 H. Janin Medieval Justice i. 5 Most of the records which have come down to us from this era are legal documents.

9. intransitive. To decrease, reduce, or be lowered in number, quantity, value, price, or degree (to or by a specified level or amount).

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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

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > decline in price or fall

fall?1532

to come down1832

settle1868

sag1870

recede1883

shorten1884

ease1900

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 481 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcvii Pryuate Commodye withe Commone wealthe to scorse: as Rentis to come downe from owterage so hye too Price indifferent to helpe manye bye.

1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse 125 The price of Christ was come downe to foure pence, mutche vnder Iudas price.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. i. 348 The market is well fallen, and the prices come downe of their workmanship.

1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 71 Resolved, That the Popish Commanders and Popish Officers shall be continued in pay till the Money come down, and no longer.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 63 If the wise Men..did not daily produce some new Discoveries, 'twas evident the Price and Rate of Southsaying would come down to nothing.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §315 Its lustre diminished..till it came down to a star of about the third magnitude.

1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iii. 39 When prices fall and wages must come down.

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 719/2 The rent must come down.

1906 M. R. Chowdhury Ess. & Speeches 124 In 1889-90, 342 girls attended the Middle English Schools; the number came down to 268 in 1895-96.

1968 Economist 16 Mar. 86/2 One of the Americans' hopes would be that, after an initial soaring, the free market price of gold could come down again.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 31/1 The price of food came down.

10. intransitive.

a. With to. To get to the essential or important point or fact, the matter at hand, etc.; to be essentially or ultimately about a single matter or concern. Also: to be ultimately equivalent to something. See also tack n.¹ 2a, to come down to cases at case n.² Phrases 2.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > be occupied with a topic [verb (intransitive)] > be a matter of

to come down1674

to come to ——1879

1674 J. D. Mall ii. 27 A pox on't, I shall spoil all I fear, if I talk much, and I cannot come right down to the matter.

1687 A. Behn Amours Philander & Silvia 110 Octavio..durst not come right down to the Point.

1746 Westm. Jrnl. 11 Oct. 1/1 To come down to our Point, with regard to Objects more immediately in our View.

1839 S. Smith John Smith's Lett. iii. 44 I ain't agoin' to talk to you about Debby, nor no sich nonsense, but come right down to matters of more importance.

1844 Niles' National Reg. 3 Feb. 364/2 It all comes down to the work of the human hand.

1889 Station Agent Apr. 46/1 You may settle as you may..but it all comes down to this—that if, after a way-bill reaches its destination [etc.]

1902 W. D. Howells Lit. & Life 212 A good..donkey would be worth all their tribe when it came down to hard work.

1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia iv. 33 The expressions in question actually have quite different uses... Not always, certainly—there are cases..in which they come down to much the same.

1989 Spin Dec. 59/2 When it comes down to playing onstage, he's unbeatable, really.

2014 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 Oct. a5/3 Everything comes down to reducing our cost structure.

b. colloquial. when (or if) it comes (or you come) down to it and variants: when one gets to essentials; ultimately.

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1872 Lippincott's Mag. June 580/2 And when you come down to it, who is he? and where did he come from?

1891 H. C. Bunner Zadoc Pine 74 'Tain't much better, when you come right down to it.

1900 ‘H. Castlemon’ First Capture ix. 114 ‘I leave it to yourself to determine whether or not you have any authority in the matter.’ ‘I don't suppose I have, if you really come down to it.’

1927 Rotarian Feb. 17/2 Men, when you come down to it, are men.

1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. ii. xxxvi. 616 He did not—when it came right down to it, he would not—give me his evidence against individuals.

1967 Life 21 Apr. 77 (advt.) Don't let the good looks fool you. When you really come down to it, it's still a Volkswagen.

1973 Billboard 29 Sept. c6/2 If it comes down to it, we..would be prepared to accept a voluntary embargo.

2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 224 But when it comes right down to it, frankly, I couldn't be arsed, I really couldn't.

11. intransitive. colloquial. To provide or hand over money; to ‘fork up’. More fully to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.). Now somewhat rare.

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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > lay down money

to show water1632

to post the cole1781

to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.)1836

to lay (or put) it on the line1929

?1688 New Ballad: Triumph of Justice (single sheet) Till Preachers and Pleaders came down with their Guinies, Which I pocketed up.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 34 What Pension does your Lady propose?..she must come down pretty deep now, she's super-annuated.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. i. 39 Did he tip handsomely? How much did he come down with?

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. ii. 10 I'll make them come down, and handsomely too, or they shall repent it.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 10 When you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. x. 227 Money, you know, coming down with money—..it cannot be a very agreeable operation.

1836 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 381 The popular phrase of coming down with ‘the dust’.

1878 Scribners Mag. 15 288/2 But even rich fathers aren't willing Always to come down with the pelf.

1902 Month Oct. 540 They would like to know if the general public..will come down with the needful cash.

1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy (1976) iii. 52 He has an old aunt, he says, who comes down handsome at need.

12. intransitive. Originally U.S. To become ill with a specified illness or disease. Also: to experience a specified symptom of an illness. to go down 3b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > catch illness

catcha1393

enticec1400

engender1525

get1527

to take up1629

to come down1837

to pick up1889

start1891

to go down1895

1837 Southern Bot. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 344/2 One man..who assisted at the burying the dead the first day, come down with the disease.

1895 J. S. Wood Yale Yarns 77 The good Deacon almost feared he was about to come down with a fever.

1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards ix. 147 The housekeeper felt sure he was ‘coming-down’ with some disease or other.

1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 253 It did not matter that she should come down sneezing to-morrow.

1961 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. T. Mann Genesis of Novel viii. 83 I was suffering from a severe headache, and the following morning I came down with a grippe that attacked stomach and intestines.

1965 Flying Mag. Aug. 98/2 I haven't been sleeping well... Maybe I'm coming down with something.

2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) Introd. 3 I came down with strep throat something like a dozen times in the second and third grades.

13. intransitive. With prepositional phrase as complement. To reach a decision in favour of one side or another; to express support for, or resolve to support, someone or something.

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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choose [verb (transitive)]

choosec893

achooseeOE

i-cheoseOE

curea1225

choise1505

to make choice of1588

pitch1628

to fix on or upon1653

trysta1694

pick1824

to prick for1828

plump1848

to come down1886

plunk1935

1886 S. P. Jones S. Jones & S. Small in Toronto: Compil. Best Serm. xxiv. 440 Well, now, friends, I will come down on your side of the question, and will talk on that side a while.

1889 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 17 Apr. 1340/1 They will find that every year petitions have come down in favor of this course.

1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) ii, in Too True to be Good 261 I might come down on your side, Arthur, if I spotted you as a winner.

1951 Mind 60 124 Woozley..comes down in favour of a Stoutean form of expression.

2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) iii. iii. 168 It was not until the First World War that the state came down on the side of sobriety.

14. intransitive. slang. To cease to experience the state of euphoria or excitement induced by the taking of a recreational drug or drugs, characterized by the gradual (and often unpleasant) lessening of its effects. Also in extended use. Cf. comedown n. 3, high adj. 19c.

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1944 Marihuana Probl. in N.Y. City (Mayor's Comm. Marihuana, New York, N.Y.) ii. 145 When the desired effects have passed off and the smoker has ‘come down’, smoking one [marijuana] cigarette brings the ‘high’ effect on again.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 147/2 I spent the rest of the trip opening and closing doors until I came down.

1991 Independent 23 Dec. 5/3 When the ravers have come down from one ecstasy tablet, they decide whether to stay or move on to the next rave.

2004 L. St John Hardcore Troubadour ii. 24 We were..coming down from a horrible sugar high.

2005 C. Honoré In Praise of Slowness 7 The more potent forms of speed are more addictive than heroin, and coming down from a hit can trigger depression, agitation and violent behaviour.

单词	to come down
释义	> as lemmas to come down to come down I. Senses primarily relating to movement in space. 1. intransitive. a. To move or travel so as to come to a lower place or position, or one regarded as lower; to descend towards a place or person. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] styc825 astyc975 alightOE to fall adownOE hieldc1275 downcomea1300 sink?a1300 avalec1374 to go downa1375 to come downc1380 dipc1390 descenda1393 clinea1400 declinea1400 downc1400 inclinec1400 vailc1400 fallc1440 devall1477 condescendc1485 to get down1567 lower1575 dismount1579 to fall down1632 down?1701 demount1837 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1121 Þay comen doun of þe tour. 1417 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 13 (MED) So that the water comme downe in a pipe of lede. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5147 When Criste es common doun to deme. 1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 300 Now ther ys com down an habeas corpus for hym. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. xii. 12 The deuell is come downe vnto you. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 70 At length commeth downe from the Pope two Legates. 1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet iii. sig. C2^v Then comes downe mistresse Nurse..in her petticoate and kertle. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 I was just coming down to the Garden-house. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxix. 96 Eight o'clock at Mid-summer, and these lazy varletesses (in full health) not come down yet to breakfast! 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 12 The gentleman that's coming down to court my sister. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 256/1 The Chancellor of the Exchequer comes down to the House of Commons. 1876 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics Jan. 62 The lever comes down with such a force that would crush railroad iron. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 170 Tom drove slowly until we were beyond the bend—then his foot came down hard, and the coupé raced along through the night. 1965 Negro Digest June 16 I came down here to ask you to share this task with me. 2010 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 25/3 There is no choice but to clamber on the front of the roller coaster... The safety bar comes down. b. Of rain, snow, etc.: to fall; (of fog, mist, darkness, etc.) to descend, settle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain heavily ropec1450 to ding down1554 to come down1597 to ding onc1650 to rain cats and dogs1661 sile1703 pour1737 teem1753 pepper1767 flood1813 to rain pitchforks1815 rash1824 spate1853 bucket1926 tipplea1930 piss1948 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (intransitive)] thicka1000 thicken1784 duff1876 to come down1891 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [verb (intransitive)] > come down (of mist or fog) to come down1891 to shut down1891 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. C Downe commeth the rayne and setteth the wynde at rest. 1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes Rep. Kingdome of Congo ii. x. 214 This water..commeth downe not in smal drops like our raine, but is powred down (as it were with pailes and buckets). 1617 tr. Ghost of Marquesse d'Ancre sig. B4 After so faire a time, thick showers of rain come downe. 1683 N. Crouch Surprizing Miracles Nature & Art 179 A fierce showr of Rain, which seemed rather to come down in pailfuls, than in the common way. 1763 Beauties Nature & Art Displayed I. iii. 145 At one, the rain came down like a flood, and so continued without intermission till ten o'clock the morning following. 1775 J. Marra Jrnl. Resolution's Voy. 126 In the evening the snow..came down heavily. 1857 Littel's Living Age 21 Feb. 500/1 All day the snow came down. 1891 Longman's Mag. July 238 The fog has come down as black as pitch. 1939 Motor Boating Feb. 10/2 Slowly the light failed, darkness came down, pitch darkness devoid of stars. 1962 G. E. Evans Ask Fellows who cut Hay (ed. 2) ii. 38 A..heavy mist came down. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater ii. 5 The rain was coming down in buckets at that point. 2. intransitive. With on, upon. a. Of something dispensed by a superior power (such as wrath, vengeance, etc.): to descend from, or as if from, the heavens upon a person or thing, esp. with suddenness or severity. Cf. to come upon —— 1b at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > strictness > make more strict or severe [verb (transitive)] > be severe upon to be sharp upon1561 to come down1611 to be severe on (or upon)1672 spitchcock1674 to handle without gloves1827 to handle with gloves off1828 to catch or get Jesse1839 to jump upon1868 to give (one) snuff1890 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > be harsh or severe upon [verb (transitive)] to be sharp upon1561 to come down1611 to be severe on (or upon)1672 spitchcock1674 to sit hard on1715 to handle without gloves1827 to handle with gloves off1828 to catch or get Jesse1839 to jump upon1868 to give (one) snuff1890 to give (a person) the works1901 hardball1984 a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xcvi. f. cxxix/2 O mi god almyghty I beseche the that thy mede fulnesse come downe now vpon me. 1550 T. Paynell Piththy & Notable Sayinges Script. f. lix Like as he is mercyful, so goeth wrath from hym also, and his indignacion commeth downe vpon synners. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxxv. 458/2 His wrath came downe vpon you. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms vii. 16 His violent dealing shall come downe vpon his owne pate. View more context for this quotation 1690 W. Lloyd Expos. Prophecy 57 A Plague..came downe upon them, in the midst of their Jollity. 1730 Some Manifestations & Communications of Spirit by Hannah Wharton 43 To assure the Chosen of God, that all the preparative Work of Wisdom is almost finished and brought to pass, that the Glory of the Lord might come down upon the Works of Wisdom. 1817 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 103 Their prosperity..soon proved to be more apparent than real. At last, the calamity came down upon them. 1830 M. Howitt in Lady's Mag. 31 Oct. 245 But vengeance comes down on the thief at length. 1913 Med. Missionary Aug. 240/1 Persecution came down with great weight upon those who were faithful. 1989 G. Glasse Conc. Dict. Islam 349/2 God's punishment came down upon the people of Thamūd in the form of an earthquake. 2014 G. Orfalea Journey to Sun vi. 89 The Aztecs had finally seen through Cortés; after turning on Montezuma, the brunt of their wrath came down on the pretender-god Spaniard. b. To attack, esp. suddenly or by surprise; to descend on someone or something with violence. Cf. to come upon —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > attack suddenly to come on ——eOE to come upon ——c1175 to start upon ——a1393 to start on ——a1398 descend?a1425 to come down1539 surprise1548 ambuscade1676 insult1775 swoop1797 Pearl Harbour1943 1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre ii. iv. sig. Evii^v He sente by nighte Marcellus knyghte, with a small power of fotemen..on the backe syde of his ennemies, and..he commanded [them]..to come down [L. descenderent] on the backe side their ennemys, whan they perceyued the battayl began. 1582 A. Fleming tr. St. Bernard in tr. A. Autpertus Monomachie of Motiues 337 What a rebellious troop of enimies come downe vpon vs forceablie. 1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru ii. i. viii. 426 They saw the Indians come down upon them in great numbers. 1695 J. Stevens tr. M. de Faria e Sousa Portugues Asia II. ii. 108 The whole Army came down upon them, and the Portugueses..were forced to retire in disorder. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 294 He saved the Emperor's Life from the Fury of a wild Boar, that had broke the Toyles, and came down upon Otho. 1745 Major Blair Campaign in Saxony 5 The Prince of Anhalt march'd directly towards the Elbe, and..came down on the Austrians and Saxons. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. iv. 33 The treacherous enemy comes down upon a sleeping village, and shoots the unsuspecting inhabitants. 1878 C. C. Chapman et al. Hist. Knox County, Illinois 337 Before the army could be brought forward to their support, the whole rebel army came down on them and overwhelmed the whole Division. 1970 R. Ribman in Passing through from Exotic Places 28 I was trying to hold a bunker when the Viet Cong came down on us. 1991 J. R. Elting Amateurs, to Arms! (1995) iv.63 A crowd of drunken, revenge-crazy warriors came down on Frenchtown. c. To punish or reprimand someone severely.See also to come down on like a thousand of bricks, to come down on like a ton of bricks at brick n.¹ and adj.¹ Phrases 3c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely visita1382 to-punisha1400 overpunisha1639 to give (a person) hell1836 to give a person what for1852 slate1854 to give it in the neck1881 to come down1888 bean1910 scrub1911 cane1925 to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935 1888 R. A. King Leal Lass I. vi. 117 It's too bad to come down always on you, only because you're such a good fellow. 1972 ‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) v. 81 If I find out that you've been holding out on me over this identification, I'll come down on you like a pile driver. 1996 J. P. Entelis Culture & Counterculture in Moroccan Polit. 86 The government came down hard on fundamentalists, arresting many leaders, closing down offices, and confiscating journals. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Dec. 20 The world shouldn't come down too harshly on David Cameron for erroneously declaring that his daughter once made him vote for Will Young on The X Factor. 3. intransitive. a. To collapse or be caused to collapse; (of a building) to be demolished; (of a tree) to be felled. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > collapse or be demolished to-fallc893 to-reosea900 tipc1400 to go together1549 to come downa1552 demolish1610 coincide1673 collapse1732 stave1797 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 75 How or when thes Trees cam doune other be Cutting or Wind Faulle no Manne ther can telle. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 310 There was no remedy, but y^e Pope would nedes haue the Archbyshops new buildyng to come downe. 1644 T. Hill Season for Englands Selfe-reflection 36 The Pope hath been raising himselfe a pompous palace..which must come down, it is designed to ruine. 1743 R. Hurd Let. 5 Feb. in Early Lett. (1995) 97 It [sc. an Elm-Walk] spoils a quick-Hedge it stands in, & therefore must come down. 1796 Gentleman's Mag. June 518/1 In Dean's Yard, Westminster, part of the old ruinous buildings came down by the violence of the wind with a great crash. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 109 Large numbers of oaks have recently been felled, and many more are marked to come down. 1868 All Year Round 18 July 135 The roof came down; an avalanche of iron instantly tore walls and gallery down with it. 1904 Weekly Underwriter 3 Dec. 398/1 The old nest of buildings came down, and the first section of the Mutual's great building went up. 1997 Boating Life June 10 The hedge tree needs pruning, and that oak tree has to come down. 2014 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 28 July Many..brought cameras to capture the moment when the 325ft towers at coal-fired Didcot A came down. b. Of a person or animal: to fall down; to be brought to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal to light lowc1225 wendc1300 to seek to the earth or groundc1330 tumblea1375 stretchc1400 to take a fall1413 to blush to the eartha1500 to come down1603 to go to grassa1640 to be floored1826 to take a spilla1845 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 to hunt grass1872 to come (also have) a buster1874 to hit the deck1954 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures x. 48 Alexander the Apothecarie, riding one day towards London.., his horse fell a plunging, and Alexander came downe. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra iii. vi. 70 Eumenes..was thrust upon his hinder quarters, and came down upon the sand with his Master. 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii. 21 His Horse and he so tired of one another, that they both came down upon the Pavement at the Stable Door. 1803 Pic Nic No. 3. 6 Dr. F—..lost his equilibrium, and came down on the ice. 1890 Field 8 Mar. 363/2 The giraffe he fired at came down. 1905 Wide World Mag. Oct. 525/1 I fell over a stump and came down on my face. 1937 Life 12 Apr. 49/1 His horse..comes down at the last fence of a recent Oxford University point-to-point steeplechase. 2015 L. R. Hieber Eterna Files 18 His heel turned slightly under him and he came down painfully. c. Of an aircraft: to crash or crash-land. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land > make crash landing pile1841 to come down1909 crash1912 crash-land1941 prang1943 1909 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily News 26 July 3/7 The young aviator..became excited..and ran into a tree. Aviator and aeroplane came down with a crash. 1919 Aeroplane 9 Apr. 1493/2 Supposing an aeroplane came down in Piccadilly and killed someone. 1975 A. Trew Zhukov Briefing xxi. 190 The light aircraft..had developed engine trouble and came down in the sea. 1992 Flying Mag. Apr. 64/1 In this highly publicized accident, a main rotor blade failed and the helicopter came down beside the garden state parkway. 2016 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 2 A fisherman had seen the plane come down at 12.30pm on Friday, about two kilometres off the Collendina Beach. 4. intransitive. Of a river: to be in flood. Cf. to come down a banker at banker n.³ 4. Now chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and South African. ΚΠ 1784 Polit. Mag. Feb. 114/2 When the river came down the people of the house fled for safety to a neighbouring hill. 1795 Edinb. Mag. Nov. 400/1 In Leith harbour the river came down with such force and body as to float the shipping though it was low water. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) 303 By good luck the river Tweed was not come down, and we crossed it safely at the ford near Norham Castle. 1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. vii. 83 The river had come down the evening on which we had crossed it, and so he had been unable to get the beef or himself home again. 1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness xxxiii. 255 It is twenty years since the Cooper [river] has come down across the bar of the Strzelecki. 1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. I. iii. xiv. 459 From the Kuiseb to the Cunene most of the rivers ‘come down’ two or three times a year, but there is no regularity in the flow. 2011 Queensland Country Life (Nexis) 15 Dec. 70 With only a relatively small area along the river frontage subject to inundation, day to day activity has not been affected by the river coming down. 5. intransitive. To leave university or college, esp. following graduation. Chiefly British, with reference to Oxford and Cambridge universities. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (intransitive)] > leave to come down1839 to go down1852 1839 New-Yorker 9 Feb. 327/3 Wilson, discoursing..about the literary men who flourished there when he first came down from Oxford. 1882 Argosy Jan. 27 William Brook had come down from Oxford just before, his mind made up not to be a clergyman. 1924 London Mercury 10 June 133 He himself was not exactly sent down from Oxford, but found it convenient to come down after one term. 1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 65 He is coming down from Oxford at Easter. 2009 Church Times 28 Aug. 21/5 All students of English literature ought to put aside a month to read and study this book before going up to university—and then another month when they come down! II. Senses not primarily relating to movement in space. 6. intransitive. To be brought to a lower rank, condition, status, etc.; to be humbled, abased, or degraded.See also to come down a peg at peg n.¹ 3a, to come down in the world at world n. Phrases 16d. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble to come downa1382 meeka1400 meekena1500 let fall one's crest1531 to come (also get) off one's perch1568 to come down a peg1589 lower1837 to come off the roof1883 to climb down1887 deflate1912 to come, etc., off one's high horse1920 the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > become poor poor?a1300 to come downa1382 decay1483 to bring haddock to paddock1546 to come to want1590 ruina1600 to come (also go) down in the world1819 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlviii. 18 Cum doun [L. descende] fro glorie, sit in thrist, thou dwelling of the doȝter of Dibon. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxviii. 43 Thou shalt come downe alowe [L. descendes]. 1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Ciiij And then shal ye also come doune, doune, And be had no more in estimacion, Laughed to scorne shal ye be with your shauen croune. 1613 W. B. tr. J. de Meung Dodechedron of Fortune 118 For all his aspiring to mount so hie, He may chaunce come down to base beggery. 1708 R. Fleming Christology II. iii. viii. 677 May we not sit down and wonder..that Christ should condescend to come down so low, for our sakes, who were Rebels against God. 1788 J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. Scotl. I. xviii. 274 Henry..might think it prudent to come down even to that mortifying degree of humility. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 633/2 Some folks who are so high will have to come down a peg. 1889 C. E. L. Riddell Princess Sunshine I. i. 8 They had come down in the world. 1915 Forum Dec. 708 Have I come down so low as to be seen by the charities? 1927 E. P. Mathers tr. Eastern Love I. v. 26 The unfortunate traveller will soon come down to begging by the roadside. 2007 K. Harbaugh in M. J. Putney et al. Dragon Lovers 210 She would find work, even if it were in a brothel. But she could feel her soul shrivel at the thought... It shamed her that she had come down so low. 7. intransitive. a. To reach or extend down to a point in space; (of a road, path, etc.) to lead down. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > have specific directions [verb (intransitive)] > have downward direction to come down1443 propend1545 to set down1747 1443 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 131 That your vayles come downe nyghe to your yene. 1581 T. Nicholas tr. A. de Zárate Discov. & Conquest Peru i. vi. sig. C.iiii^v Their women were garments made of Cotton woll, like vnto gownes which come downe to their feete. a1589 L. Mascall Bk. Fishing (1590) sig. L Which string comes downe to the bridge. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. i. 353 Their women..whose vpper gownes come no further downe than their middle thighes. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra iii. iii. 155 The skirt came down as far as his knee. 1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 165 Their Hair came down to their Ears. 1786 R. Cumberland Observer III. lxv. 44 A close-bellied doublet coming down with a peake behind as far as the crupper. 1834 Royal Lady's Mag. Mar. 60/2 The path came down through a bushy hollow upon the bank above the water. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 12/2 The..forest..comes down to the water's edge. 1913 Northwestern Reporter 140 806/2 The stick was wedged in... It came down below the saws about six inches. 1997 ‘S. Shem’ Mount Misery i. 15 A fiftyish..man with thick, curly chestnut hair coming down over his brow like a helmet. b. To reach or extend forwards to a certain point in history or period of time. ΚΠ 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 141 I am now come down in my Writing to this present Saturday, and a deal I have written. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 21/2 The latest accounts of the patient come down to the fifteenth day after the operation. 1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iii. v. 614/1 Their narrative comes down to the year 1156. 1908 Nature 16 Jan. 245/1 To come down to later times, Kekulé is said to have become professor of chemistry in Geneva in 1858. 1920 O. F. Morton Hist. Rockbridge County xii. 104 The Recent Period begins with the cessation of hostilities in 1865 and comes down to the present year. 2005 G. Forsythe Crit. Hist. Early Rome. (2006) iii. 68 Diodorus Siculus..wrote a universal history of the ancient world,..beginning with the mythical past and coming down to the year 60 B.C. 8. intransitive. †a. To be descended by birth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > be descended [verb (intransitive)] comeOE springa1200 ofspringc1300 to be descended (from, of)1399 to run of ——?a1400 descenda1413 proceed?a1439 issuea1450 to come downc1450 outspringa1547 decline1598 c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3156 Þat þai ware comen doun of kyngis. b. To be handed down by tradition or inheritance; to survive from an earlier time to the present. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (intransitive)] > endure, remain, persist, or continue > after something else or survive survive1594 to come down1711 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. f. xxxvii/1 Many thyngys ar there lyke, whyche as holy doctours agree, were taught thappostels by Cryste, & the church by thappostels, and so comen downe to our days by contynuall successyon fro theyrs. 1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning viii. 579 This is an ancient law of the Brittans, & from them come down to our tyme without change or alteration. 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 158 If he doubted of the truth of it, tell him the authority, by which it comes downe to us in a continued, undistributed, undenied tradition. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 101. ¶7 Nothing of this nature is come down to us. 1762 J. Macpherson Fingal p. xii This custom came down near to our own times. 1836 Fraser's Mag. July 90/1 Thy MSS. have come down to us..ungnawed by the tooth of Time. 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxxv. 352 The tales had come down from the old heathen times. 1916 Christian Advocate 14 Dec. 1639/1 It is most interesting to study the different portraits of Christ which have come down to us through the years. 1953 Philadelphia Evening Bull. 23 Sept. The slang ‘hoke’ for a gentleman of the road comes down to us from hocus-pocus. 2004 H. Janin Medieval Justice i. 5 Most of the records which have come down to us from this era are legal documents. 9. intransitive. To decrease, reduce, or be lowered in number, quantity, value, price, or degree (to or by a specified level or amount). ΘΚΠ 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 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > decline in price or fall fall?1532 to come down1832 settle1868 sag1870 recede1883 shorten1884 ease1900 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 481 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcvii Pryuate Commodye withe Commone wealthe to scorse: as Rentis to come downe from owterage so hye too Price indifferent to helpe manye bye. 1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse 125 The price of Christ was come downe to foure pence, mutche vnder Iudas price. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. i. 348 The market is well fallen, and the prices come downe of their workmanship. 1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 71 Resolved, That the Popish Commanders and Popish Officers shall be continued in pay till the Money come down, and no longer. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 63 If the wise Men..did not daily produce some new Discoveries, 'twas evident the Price and Rate of Southsaying would come down to nothing. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §315 Its lustre diminished..till it came down to a star of about the third magnitude. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iii. 39 When prices fall and wages must come down. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 719/2 The rent must come down. 1906 M. R. Chowdhury Ess. & Speeches 124 In 1889-90, 342 girls attended the Middle English Schools; the number came down to 268 in 1895-96. 1968 Economist 16 Mar. 86/2 One of the Americans' hopes would be that, after an initial soaring, the free market price of gold could come down again. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 31/1 The price of food came down. 10. intransitive. a. With to. To get to the essential or important point or fact, the matter at hand, etc.; to be essentially or ultimately about a single matter or concern. Also: to be ultimately equivalent to something. See also tack n.¹ 2a, to come down to cases at case n.² Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > be occupied with a topic [verb (intransitive)] > be a matter of to come down1674 to come to ——1879 1674 J. D. Mall ii. 27 A pox on't, I shall spoil all I fear, if I talk much, and I cannot come right down to the matter. 1687 A. Behn Amours Philander & Silvia 110 Octavio..durst not come right down to the Point. 1746 Westm. Jrnl. 11 Oct. 1/1 To come down to our Point, with regard to Objects more immediately in our View. 1839 S. Smith John Smith's Lett. iii. 44 I ain't agoin' to talk to you about Debby, nor no sich nonsense, but come right down to matters of more importance. 1844 Niles' National Reg. 3 Feb. 364/2 It all comes down to the work of the human hand. 1889 Station Agent Apr. 46/1 You may settle as you may..but it all comes down to this—that if, after a way-bill reaches its destination [etc.] 1902 W. D. Howells Lit. & Life 212 A good..donkey would be worth all their tribe when it came down to hard work. 1962 J. L. Austin's Sense & Sensibilia iv. 33 The expressions in question actually have quite different uses... Not always, certainly—there are cases..in which they come down to much the same. 1989 Spin Dec. 59/2 When it comes down to playing onstage, he's unbeatable, really. 2014 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 Oct. a5/3 Everything comes down to reducing our cost structure. b. colloquial. when (or if) it comes (or you come) down to it and variants: when one gets to essentials; ultimately. ΚΠ 1872 Lippincott's Mag. June 580/2 And when you come down to it, who is he? and where did he come from? 1891 H. C. Bunner Zadoc Pine 74 'Tain't much better, when you come right down to it. 1900 ‘H. Castlemon’ First Capture ix. 114 ‘I leave it to yourself to determine whether or not you have any authority in the matter.’ ‘I don't suppose I have, if you really come down to it.’ 1927 Rotarian Feb. 17/2 Men, when you come down to it, are men. 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. ii. xxxvi. 616 He did not—when it came right down to it, he would not—give me his evidence against individuals. 1967 Life 21 Apr. 77 (advt.) Don't let the good looks fool you. When you really come down to it, it's still a Volkswagen. 1973 Billboard 29 Sept. c6/2 If it comes down to it, we..would be prepared to accept a voluntary embargo. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 224 But when it comes right down to it, frankly, I couldn't be arsed, I really couldn't. 11. intransitive. colloquial. To provide or hand over money; to ‘fork up’. More fully to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.). Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > lay down money to show water1632 to post the cole1781 to come down with the money (dust, needful, etc.)1836 to lay (or put) it on the line1929 ?1688 New Ballad: Triumph of Justice (single sheet) Till Preachers and Pleaders came down with their Guinies, Which I pocketed up. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 34 What Pension does your Lady propose?..she must come down pretty deep now, she's super-annuated. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. i. 39 Did he tip handsomely? How much did he come down with? 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. i. ii. 10 I'll make them come down, and handsomely too, or they shall repent it. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 10 When you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. x. 227 Money, you know, coming down with money—..it cannot be a very agreeable operation. View more context for this quotation 1836 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) IV. 381 The popular phrase of coming down with ‘the dust’. 1878 Scribners Mag. 15 288/2 But even rich fathers aren't willing Always to come down with the pelf. 1902 Month Oct. 540 They would like to know if the general public..will come down with the needful cash. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy (1976) iii. 52 He has an old aunt, he says, who comes down handsome at need. 12. intransitive. Originally U.S. To become ill with a specified illness or disease. Also: to experience a specified symptom of an illness. to go down 3b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > catch illness catcha1393 enticec1400 engender1525 get1527 to take up1629 to come down1837 to pick up1889 start1891 to go down1895 1837 Southern Bot. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 344/2 One man..who assisted at the burying the dead the first day, come down with the disease. 1895 J. S. Wood Yale Yarns 77 The good Deacon almost feared he was about to come down with a fever. 1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards ix. 147 The housekeeper felt sure he was ‘coming-down’ with some disease or other. 1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 253 It did not matter that she should come down sneezing to-morrow. 1961 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. T. Mann Genesis of Novel viii. 83 I was suffering from a severe headache, and the following morning I came down with a grippe that attacked stomach and intestines. 1965 Flying Mag. Aug. 98/2 I haven't been sleeping well... Maybe I'm coming down with something. 2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) Introd. 3 I came down with strep throat something like a dozen times in the second and third grades. 13. intransitive. With prepositional phrase as complement. To reach a decision in favour of one side or another; to express support for, or resolve to support, someone or something. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choose [verb (transitive)] choosec893 achooseeOE i-cheoseOE curea1225 choise1505 to make choice of1588 pitch1628 to fix on or upon1653 trysta1694 pick1824 to prick for1828 plump1848 to come down1886 plunk1935 1886 S. P. Jones S. Jones & S. Small in Toronto: Compil. Best Serm. xxiv. 440 Well, now, friends, I will come down on your side of the question, and will talk on that side a while. 1889 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 17 Apr. 1340/1 They will find that every year petitions have come down in favor of this course. 1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) ii, in Too True to be Good 261 I might come down on your side, Arthur, if I spotted you as a winner. 1951 Mind 60 124 Woozley..comes down in favour of a Stoutean form of expression. 2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) iii. iii. 168 It was not until the First World War that the state came down on the side of sobriety. 14. intransitive. slang. To cease to experience the state of euphoria or excitement induced by the taking of a recreational drug or drugs, characterized by the gradual (and often unpleasant) lessening of its effects. Also in extended use. Cf. comedown n. 3, high adj. 19c. ΚΠ 1944 Marihuana Probl. in N.Y. City (Mayor's Comm. Marihuana, New York, N.Y.) ii. 145 When the desired effects have passed off and the smoker has ‘come down’, smoking one [marijuana] cigarette brings the ‘high’ effect on again. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 147/2 I spent the rest of the trip opening and closing doors until I came down. 1991 Independent 23 Dec. 5/3 When the ravers have come down from one ecstasy tablet, they decide whether to stay or move on to the next rave. 2004 L. St John Hardcore Troubadour ii. 24 We were..coming down from a horrible sugar high. 2005 C. Honoré In Praise of Slowness 7 The more potent forms of speed are more addictive than heroin, and coming down from a hit can trigger depression, agitation and violent behaviour. extracted from comev. < as lemmas
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