# come down
## English
### Pronunciation

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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.
    After a clap of thunder, down came the rain.
** 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 (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.
    He finally came down from his post-bonus high.
** 1982 February 6, Edmund Carvale, “Recovering a Literary Legacy”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 8:Navarre is in superb control of his prose, distorting it more and more as the poppers mint Luc's mind, clarifying it as he comes down.
** 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; to occur; to transpire.
* (intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way.
    He's been coming down angry all day.

#### Derived terms

* come-down (noun)
* comedown (noun)
* come down on
* come down to
* come down with
* come down with one's dust
* come down with the dust

#### Translations

Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: نزل (nizil)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 下來 / 下来 (zh) (xiàlái), 降 (zh) (jiàng)
Egyptian: (hꜣj)
Finnish: kaatua (fi) (fall); laskeutua (fi) (descend)
French: descendre (fr), tomber (fr)
German: herunterkommen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: κατέρχομαι (katérkhomai)
Irish: ísligh
Jamaican Creole: fall dung
Japanese: 降りる (ja) (おりる, oriru)
Korean: 내려오다 (ko) (naeryeooda)
Latin: descendō
Malagasy: midina (mg), mianjera (mg)
Maori: makere
Russian: (descend) спуска́ться (ru) impf (spuskátʹsja), спусти́ться (ru) pf (spustítʹsja); (fall) па́дать (ru) impf (pádatʹ), упа́сть (ru) pf (upástʹ)
Swedish: falla ned
Tocharian B: kārp-
Turkish: düşmek (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎗𐎄 (yrd) :

### Anagrams

* downcome