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Noun: comedown  'kúm`dawn
  1. Decline to a lower status or level
Verb: come down  kúm dawn
  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: comedowns, came down, come down, comes down, coming down

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

Encyclopedia: Come down

Comedown