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let down
verb
- also preposition to lower
- to fail to fulfil the expectations of (a person); disappoint
- to undo, shorten, and resew (the hem) so as to lengthen (a dress, skirt, etc)
- to untie (long hair that is bound up) and allow to fall loose
- to deflate
to let down a tyre
noun
- a disappointment
- the gliding descent of an aircraft in preparation for landing
- the release of milk from the mammary glands following stimulation by the hormone oxytocin
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Example Sentences
But it was a bit of a let-down after getting all warmed up, you know.
After the hanging a temporary reaction took place--a let-down from the hectic, fevered agitations of preceding days.
It was a little let-down to this exalted condition that it had to come within the social bonds of their common every-day lives.
Were you so tired of a little useful work that ye maun greet a let-down with such early rising?
He had gone on hoping from day to day that Barker might not notice the "let-down" in her work, and now the blow had fallen.
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