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COME DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get sick
Example:
She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital
Synonyms:
come down; sicken
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
wan (become pale and sickly)
contract; get; take (be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness)
canker (become infected with a canker)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be the essential element
Example:
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
become; turn (undergo a change or development)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Criticize or reprimand harshly
Example:
The critics came down hard on the new play
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
Example:
Her hand went up and then fell again
Synonyms:
come down; descend; fall; go down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come down" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
cascade; cascade down (rush down in big quantities, like a cascade)
drip (fall in drops)
pounce; swoop (move down on as if in an attack)
go down; go under; settle; sink (go under)
alight; climb down (come down)
pitch (fall or plunge forward)
plop (drop with the sound of something falling into water)
drop (to fall vertically)
topple; tumble (fall down, as if collapsing)
flop (fall suddenly and abruptly)
crash (fall or come down violently)
sink; subside (descend into or as if into some soft substance or place)
precipitate (fall vertically, sharply, or headlong)
correct; decline; slump (go down in value)
go down; go under; set (disappear beyond the horizon)
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
avalanche; roll down (gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow)
dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse (alight from (a horse))
abseil; rappel; rope down (descend by means of a rappel)
prolapse (slip or fall out of place, as of body parts)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to come down
Sense 5
Meaning:
Fall from clouds
Example:
Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
Synonyms:
come down; fall; precipitate
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
"Come down" entails doing...:
condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)
Verb group:
fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come down"):
rain; rain down (precipitate as rain)
spat (come down like raindrops)
snow (fall as snow)
hail (precipitate as small ice particles)
sleet (precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
For goodness’ sake, come down and lend me a hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A tall, stout official had come down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged jacket.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had an old mother there, lad, who had come down thither from the Midlands to be the nearer her son.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As soon as she dared leave the table she hurried away to her own room; but the housemaids were busy in it, and she was obliged to come down again.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But we’ve got the deuce of a hill to come down.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Here am I come down for only one day, and you are engaged with a dinner-party!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
How can I come down, Zambo?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
