- an unexpected or humiliating descent from dignity, importance, or wealth.
- a decline in position, status, or prosperity
- a disappointment
- a depressed or unexcited state
- to come to a place regarded as lower
- to lose status, wealth, etc (esp in the phrase to come down in the world)
- to reach a decision
- to be handed down or acquired by tradition or inheritance
- to leave college or university
- to succumb (to illness or disease)
- to rebuke or criticize harshly
- to amount in essence (to)
- to lose the effects of a drug and return to a normal or more normal state
- (of a river) to flow in flood
