come downverb

• 1

  To descend, fall down, collapse.

  • A tree came down and hit me on the head.
  • After a clap of thunder, down came the rain.
• 2

  To be demolished.

  • The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.
• 3

  To decrease.

  • Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.
• 4

  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.
• 5

  To be passed through time.

  • Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.
• 6

  To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.

  • He finally came down from his post-bonus high.
  • 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.
• 7

  To rain.

  • It's coming down heavily now.
• 8

  To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.

  • Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.