come down

Verb

come down (third-person singular simple present comes down, present participle coming down, simple past came down, past participle come down)

1. (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.
2. (intransitive) To be demolished.
   • The damage sustained in the fire is so great that the whole building will have to come down.
3. (intransitive) To decrease.
   • Real estate prices have come down since the peak of the boom.
4. (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.
5. (intransitive) To be passed through time.
   • Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.
6. (idiomatic, intransitive) 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.1982 February 6, Edmund Carvale, “Recovering a Literary Legacy”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 8
7. (UK, impersonal) To rain.
   • It's coming down heavily now.
8. (UK, intransitive) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
   • Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24
9. Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire.
10. (intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way.
    • He's been coming down angry all day.