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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
    "The barometer is coming down"
    - descend, fall, go down
     
  2. Be the essential element
    "The proposal comes down to a compromise"
    - reduce, boil down
     
  3. (of rain, snow, etc.) landing after falling from the clouds
    "Vesuvius came down its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
    - precipitate, fall
     
  4. Get sick
    - sicken
     
  5. Criticize or reprimand harshly
    "The critics came down hard on the new play"

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

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

Encyclopedia: Come down

Comedown

Nearest

come alive
come along
come apart
come around
come away
come back
come before
come by
come clean
come close
come down
come forth
come forward
come hell or high water
come home
come in
come in for
come in handy
come into
come into being
come near