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Definition of Let down

1. Verb. Move something or somebody to a lower position. "They let down the bags on the table"; "Take down the vase from the shelf"

2. Verb. Fail to meet the hopes or expectations of. "The performance is likely to let down Sue"; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"

Definition of Let down

1. Verb. To allow to descend. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Let Down

let's let's go let's not and say we did let's roll let's see let-down let-down reflex let-downs let-off let-offs

let-through let-up let alone let be let bygones be bygones let down let drive let fly let freedom ring let go

let go and let God let go of let her rip let him that is without sin cast the first stone let him who is without sin cast the first stone let in let in on let it be let it go let know

Literary usage of Let down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"Pope was going in procession, Farnese got into a basket and was let down by a rope to the ground. At that time the outer walls had not been built around the ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"was going in procession, Farnese got into a basket and was let down by a rope to the ground. At that time the outer walls had not been built around the ..."

3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Encas past : Thence bursting glorious, all at once let down, Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew : Europe ..."

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