COME DOWN


Meaning of COME DOWN in English

come down phrasal verb ( see also ↑ come )

1 .

a) if a price, level etc comes down, it gets lower:

It looks as if interest rates will come down again this month.

b) to accept a lower price

come down to

He’s asking £5,000, but he may be willing to come down to £4,800.

2 . if someone comes down to a place, they travel south to the place where you are:

Why don’t you come down for the weekend sometime?

come down to

Are you coming down to Knoxville for Christmas?

3 . to fall to the ground:

A lot of trees came down in the storm.

We were still out in the fields when the rain started coming down.

4 . come down on the side of somebody/something ( also come down in favour of somebody/something ) to decide to support someone or something:

The committee came down in favour of making the information public.

5 . informal to start to feel normal again after you have been feeling very happy and excited:

He was on a real high all last week and he’s only just come down.

6 . informal to stop feeling the effects of a strong drug:

When I came down, I remembered with horror some of the things I’d said.

7 . British English old-fashioned to leave a university after completing a period of study

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.