verb
- Lower (one's body) as by kneeling.
- usage: "Get down on your knees"
- Move something or somebody to a lower position.
- usage: "take down the vase from the shelf"
- synonyms: lower, take down, let down, bring down
- Alight from (a horse.
- Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking.
- usage: "Swallow the raw fish-it won't kill you"
- synonyms: swallow
- Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.
- usage: "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- synonyms: depress, deject, cast down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise
- Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc..
- synonyms: write down, set down, put down
- Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
- usage: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
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