ALL meanings of let down
let down
L l - noun let down Let us is used in all varieties of speech and writing to introduce a suggestion or a request: Let us consider all the facts before deciding. The contracted form let's occurs mostly in informal speech and writing: Let's go. Let's not think about that right now. Perhaps because let's has come to be felt as a word in its own right rather than as the contraction of let us, it is often followed in informal speech and writing by redundant or appositional pronouns: Let's us plan a picnic. Let's you and I (or me) get together tomorrow. Both Let's you and me and Let's you and I occur in the relaxed speech of educated speakers. The former conforms to the traditional rules of grammar; the latter, nonetheless, occurs more frequently. See also leave1. 1
- transitivephrasal verb let down disappoint, fail 1
- transitivephrasal verb let down lower gradually 1
- transitivephrasal verb let down clothing: lengthen at hem 1
- transitivephrasal verb let down release air from: tyre, etc 1
- adjective let down disappointed, failed 1
- noun let down British. a lease. 1
- verb with object let down to allow or permit: to let him escape. 1
- verb with object let down to allow to pass, go, or come: to let us through. 1
- verb with object let down to grant the occupancy or use of (land, buildings, rooms, space, etc., or movable property) for rent or hire (sometimes followed by out). 1
- verb with object let down to contract or assign for performance, usually under a contract: to let work to a carpenter. 1
- verb with object let down to cause to; make: to let one know the truth. 1
- verb with object let down (used in the imperative as an auxiliary expressive of a request, command, warning, suggestion, etc.): Let me see. Let us go. Just let them try it! 1
- verb without object let down to admit of being rented or leased: The apartment lets for $100 per week. 1
- idioms let down let alone. alone (def 8). 1
- idioms let down let be, to refrain from interference. to refrain from interfering with. 1
- idioms let down let go. go1 (def 93). 1
- idioms let down let someone have it, Informal. to attack or assault, as by striking, shooting, or rebuking: The gunman threatened to let the teller have it if he didn't move fast. 1
- verb let down Used other than as an idiom: see let, down. 0
- verb let down (Transitive Verb) To allow to descend. 0
- verb let down (Transitive Verb) IDI To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody. 0
- verb let down (Transitive Verb) (of clothing) To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem. 0
- verb let down (Intransitive Verb) To reduce one's level of effort. 0
- verb let down To soften in tempering. 0
- phrasal verb let down If you let someone down, you disappoint them, by not doing something that you have said you will do or that they expected you to do. 0
- phrasal verb let down If something lets you down, it is the reason you are not as successful as you could have been. 0
- phrasal verb let down If you let down something such as a tyre, you allow air to escape from it. 0
- variable noun let down A let-down is a disappointment that you suffer, usually because something has not happened in the way in which you expected it to happen. 0
- verb let down to lower 0
- verb let down to fail to fulfil the expectations of (a person); disappoint 0
- verb let down to undo, shorten, and resew (the hem) so as to lengthen (a dress, skirt, etc) 0
- verb let down to untie (long hair that is bound up) and allow to fall loose 0
- verb let down to deflate 0
- noun let down a disappointment 0
- noun let down the gliding descent of an aircraft in preparation for landing 0
- noun let down the release of milk from the mammary glands following stimulation by the hormone oxytocin 0
- noun let down to slow up; relax; slacken 0
- noun let down to disappoint or fail 0