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1. Decline to a lower status or level

1. Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   "The barometer is coming down";
   - descend, fall, go down, sink
    
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
   - precipitate, fall
    
4. Get sick
   - sicken
    
5. Criticize or reprimand harshly
   "The critics came down hard on the new play"

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

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

Encyclopedia: Comedown