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let down

Definitions

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  • verb to allow to descend
  • verb transitive, idiomatic to disappoint; to betray or fail somebody

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  • verb fail to meet the hopes or expectations of

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synonyms (184)

Words with the same meaning

  1. abate
  2. apostatize
  3. arrest
  4. backpedal
  5. backwater
  6. baffle
  7. baffled
  8. balk
  9. balked
  10. bamboozle
  11. bate
  12. bear down
  13. beguile
  14. betray
  15. betrayed
  16. bilk
  17. bilked
  18. blasted
  19. blighted
  20. bluff
  21. bolt
  22. brake
  23. break away
  24. bring low
  25. cajole
  26. cast down
  27. chapfallen
  28. cheat on
  29. check
  30. circumvent
  31. clip the wings
  32. conjure
  33. couch
  34. crestfallen
  35. cross
  36. crossed
  37. crushed
  38. curb
  39. dash
  40. dashed
  41. debase
  42. deceive
  43. decelerate
  44. defeat
  45. defeat expectation
  46. defeated
  47. defect
  48. deflate
  49. degenerate
  50. delay
  51. delude
  52. demit
  53. depress
  54. desert
  55. detain
  56. deteriorate
  57. detrude
  58. diddle
  59. disappoint
  60. disappointed
  61. disgrace
  62. dished
  63. disillusion
  64. disillusioned
  65. disimprove
  66. dissatisfied
  67. dissatisfy
  68. double-cross
  69. downbear
  70. draw rein
  71. droop
  72. dupe
  73. ease
  74. ease off
  75. ease up
  76. embarrass
  77. fall back
  78. foil
  79. foiled
  80. forestall
  81. frustrate
  82. frustrated
  83. gammon
  84. get around
  85. get worse
  86. grow worse
  87. gull
  88. haul down
  89. hoax
  90. hocus-pocus
  91. hold back
  92. hold in check
  93. hold up
  94. hornswaggle
  95. humble
  96. humbug
  97. humiliate
  98. ill done-by
  99. ill-served
  100. impede
  101. indent
  102. inform on
  103. juggle
  104. keep back
  105. let up
  106. let up on
  107. loose
  108. loosen
  109. lose ground
  110. lose momentum
  111. lose speed
  112. lower
  113. mitigate
  114. mock
  115. moderate
  116. mortify
  117. obstruct
  118. out of countenance
  119. outmaneuver
  120. outreach
  121. outsmart
  122. outwit
  123. overreach
  124. pigeon
  125. play one false
  126. press down
  127. pull down
  128. pull out
  129. push down
  130. put out
  131. put something over
  132. put to shame
  133. rat
  134. reduce
  135. reef
  136. regress
  137. regretful
  138. rein in
  139. relapse
  140. relax
  141. remit
  142. retard
  143. retrograde
  144. retrogress
  145. run out on
  146. secede
  147. sell out
  148. set back
  149. shame
  150. sicken
  151. sink
  152. slack
  153. slack off
  154. slack up
  155. slacken
  156. slake
  157. slip back
  158. slow
  159. slow down
  160. slow up
  161. snow
  162. sorely disappointed
  163. soured
  164. stay
  165. string along
  166. take down
  167. take in
  168. take in sail
  169. tantalize
  170. tease
  171. throttle down
  172. thrust down
  173. thwart
  174. thwarted
  175. trick
  176. turn in
  177. two-time
  178. unbend
  179. unbrace
  180. unlax
  181. unstrain
  182. unstring
  183. unwind
  184. worsen

forms (1)

Forms

  1. let one's hair down

relateds (4)

relateds

  1. and
  2. let-down
  3. letdown
  4. noun

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