talk down (English, verb)
expansion: talk down (third-person singular simple present talks down, present participle talking down, simple past and past participle talked down)
Senses:
glosses: To negotiate a lower price.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To verbally assist someone to land an aircraft.
tags: transitive
raw_tags: of ground control
glosses: To convince a person to cease a drastic action or response, such as a suicide attempt or act of rage.
tags: transitive
glosses: To overcome by spoken argument.
tags: transitive
glosses: To comfort someone experiencing a bad trip, to help them come down.
tags: slang
transitive
Forms:
form: talks down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: talking down
tags: participle
present
form: talked down
tags: participle
past
form: talked down
tags: past