| bring down | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down | move something or somebody to a lower position.; "take down the vase from the shelf" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ reef | lower and bring partially inboard.; "reef the sailboat's mast" |
| ~ depress | lower (prices or markets).; "The glut of oil depressed gas prices" |
| ~ dip | lower briefly.; "She dipped her knee" |
| ~ incline | lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow.; "She inclined her head to the student" |
| v. (social) | 2. bring down, overthrow, overturn, subvert | cause the downfall of; of rulers.; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" |
| ~ revolutionize | overthrow by a revolution, of governments. |
| ~ depose, force out | force to leave (an office). |
| v. (communication) | 3. bring down, impose, inflict, visit | impose something unpleasant.; "The principal visited his rage on the students" |
| ~ communicate, intercommunicate | transmit thoughts or feelings.; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" |
| ~ dictate, prescribe, order | issue commands or orders for. |
| ~ obtrude, intrude | thrust oneself in as if by force.; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" |
| ~ clamp | impose or inflict forcefully.; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital" |
| ~ give | inflict as a punishment.; "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years" |
| ~ foist | to force onto another.; "He foisted his work on me" |
| v. (motion) | 4. bring down, land, put down | cause to come to the ground.; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" |
| ~ air travel, aviation, air | travel via aircraft.; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" |
| ~ land, set down | reach or come to rest.; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" |
| ~ arrive, come, get | reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress.; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. bring down | cause to be enthusiastic.; "Her playing brought down the house" |
| ~ enthuse | cause to feel enthusiasm. |
| v. (change) | 6. bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| ~ shorten | make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.; "He shortened his trip due to illness" |
| ~ spill | reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail). |
| ~ quench | reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance. |
| ~ cut | have a reducing effect.; "This cuts into my earnings" |
| ~ retrench | make a reduction, as in one's workforce.; "The company had to retrench" |
| ~ slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ thin out | make sparse.; "thin out the young plants" |
| ~ thin | make thin or thinner.; "Thin the solution" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ detract, take away | take away a part from; diminish.; "His bad manners detract from his good character" |
| ~ deflate | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.; "deflate the currency" |
| ~ inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.; "inflate the currency" |
| ~ downsize | reduce in size or number.; "the company downsized its research staff" |
| ~ subtract | take off or away.; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French" |
| ~ knock off, shave | cut the price of. |
| go down | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. come down, descend, fall, go down | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ prolapse | slip or fall out of place, as of body parts.; "prolapsed rectum" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ abseil, rappel, rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside.; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" |
| ~ dismount, unhorse, get down, light, get off | alight from (a horse). |
| ~ avalanche, roll down | gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow. |
| ~ dive, plunge, plunk | drop steeply.; "the stock market plunged" |
| ~ go under, go down, set | disappear beyond the horizon.; "the sun sets early these days" |
| ~ slump, correct, decline | go down in value.; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" |
| ~ precipitate | fall vertically, sharply, or headlong.; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" |
| ~ subside, sink | descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" |
| ~ crash | fall or come down violently.; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea" |
| ~ flop | fall suddenly and abruptly. |
| ~ topple, tumble | fall down, as if collapsing.; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" |
| ~ drop | to fall vertically.; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" |
| ~ plop | drop with the sound of something falling into water. |
| ~ pitch | fall or plunge forward.; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony" |
| ~ climb down, alight | come down.; "the birds alighted" |
| ~ go under, go down, sink, settle | go under,.; "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
| ~ pounce, swoop | move down on as if in an attack.; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" |
| ~ drip | fall in drops.; "Water is dripping from the faucet" |
| ~ cascade, cascade down | rush down in big quantities, like a cascade. |
| v. (motion) | 2. go down, go under, settle, sink | go under,.; "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| ~ subside, settle | sink down or precipitate.; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm" |
| ~ sink | cause to sink.; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor" |
| ~ founder | sink below the surface. |
| ~ submerge, submerse | sink below the surface; go under or as if under water. |
| v. (change) | 3. decline, go down, wane | grow smaller.; "Interest in the project waned" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| ~ dip | go down momentarily.; "Prices dipped" |
| ~ wear on | pass slowly (of time).; "The day wore on" |
| ~ drop | go down in value.; "Stock prices dropped" |
| v. (stative) | 4. go down | be recorded or remembered.; "She will go down as the first feminist" |
| v. (consumption) | 5. go down | be ingested.; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down" |
| v. (competition) | 6. go down | be defeated.; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" |
| ~ lose | fail to win.; "We lost the battle but we won the war" |
| v. (motion) | 7. go down, go under, set | disappear beyond the horizon.; "the sun sets early these days" |
| ~ astronomy, uranology | the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. |
| ~ come down, descend, go down, fall | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" |
| v. (change) | 8. crash, go down | stop operating.; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" |
| ~ conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| launch | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. launch | a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck. |
| ~ motorboat, powerboat | a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine. |
| n. (act) | 2. launch, launching | the act of propelling with force. |
| ~ actuation, propulsion | the act of propelling. |
| ~ rocket firing, rocket launching | the launching of a rocket or missile under its own power. |
| v. (social) | 3. establish, found, launch, set up | set up or found.; "She set up a literacy program" |
| ~ open, open up | start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning.; "open a business" |
| v. (contact) | 4. launch | propel with force.; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship" |
| ~ propel, impel | cause to move forward with force.; "Steam propels this ship" |
| ~ float | put into the water.; "float a ship" |
| ~ blast off | launch with great force.; "the rockets were blasted off" |
| v. (contact) | 5. launch | launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage.; "launch a ship" |
| ~ set in motion, launch | get going; give impetus to.; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process" |
| v. (change) | 6. launch, plunge | begin with vigor.; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure" |
| ~ begin, commence, set out, start, start out, set about, get down, get | take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" |
| ~ plunge | dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity.; "She plunged at it eagerly" |
| v. (contact) | 7. launch, set in motion | get going; give impetus to.; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process" |
| ~ launch | launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage.; "launch a ship" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (contact) | 8. launch | smoothen the surface of.; "launch plaster" |
| ~ smooth, smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing.; "smooth the surface of the wood" |
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