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bringdown

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bring⋅down

  [bring-doun]
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–noun Informal.
1. a disappointment or disillusionment; letdown: It was quite a bringdown to find myself running last in the mayoral race.
2. anything, as a cutting remark or critical action, that causes depression or deflates one's ego; a put-down.
Origin:
1940–45; n. use of v. phrase bring down; modeled on letdown and causative of comedown
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bring·down   (brĭng'doun')   
n.  Something disappointing; a letdown.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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