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English
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Verb
come down (third-person singular simple present comes down, present participle coming down, simple past came down, past participle come down)
- (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
A tree came down and hit me on the head.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 45:9:Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
1995, “Goldfinger”, performed by Ash:I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain is coming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.
- (intransitive) To be demolished.
The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.
- (intransitive) To decrease.
Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.
- (intransitive) To reach or release a decision.
I can't guess which way the board will come down on the project.
The decision in Doe v. Smith came down this morning.
- (intransitive) To be passed through time.
Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
He finally came down from his post-bonus high.
1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then you come down
2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would never come down.
2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer:Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.
- (impersonal, UK) To rain.
It's coming down heavily now.
- (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24:Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.
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reach a decision
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be passed through time
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- Finnish: välittyä (fi)
- French: être transmis
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return from an elevated state of consciousness
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- Finnish: laskeutua (fi)
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