Meaning of COMEDOWN
Pronunciation: | | 'kum`dawn
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [n] decline to a lower status or level |
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| See Also: | | abasement, humiliation | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Come"down`\, n.
A downfall; an humiliation. [Colloq.]
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| Related Terms: | | abasement, anticlimax, backset, bafflement, balk, bathos, belittling, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, breakdown, buffet, cascade, cataract, check, chute, collapse, contempt, crash, cropper, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrial, defeat, deflation, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descending, descension, descent, deterioration, detraction, devolution, disappointment, disapproval, discomfiture, discrediting, disgrace, disillusionment, disparagement, dissatisfaction, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dropping, dump, dying, ebb, effeteness, embarrassment, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, fallen countenance, falling, falling-off, fiasco, fizzle, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, gravitation, hangdog look, hope deferred, humbled pride, humiliation, inclination, indignity, involution, knocking, lapse, letdown, loss of tone, lukewarm support, minimizing, mirage, mortification, nose dive, plummeting, pounce, pratfall, put-down, putting down, rapids, regression, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reversal, reverse, reverse of fortune, ruin, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setback, setdown, severe check, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, slighting, slippage, slump, smash, sore disappointment, sour grapes, stoop, stumble, swoop, tailspin, tantalization, tease, throwback, tumble, undoing, wane, waterfall, wreck |
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