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turn down in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. refuse to accept
    "He refused my offer of hospitality"
    refuse  reject  pass up  turn down  decline 
  2. reject with contempt
    "She spurned his advances"
    reject  spurn  freeze off  scorn  pooh-pooh  disdain  turn down 
  3. make lower or quieter
    "turn down the volume of a radio"
    turn down  lower  lour 
  4. refuse entrance or membership
    "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
    reject  turn down  turn away  refuse 
  5. take a downward direction
    "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"
    turn down 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


turn down in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (idiom) to refuse or deny
  2. (verb) (idiom) to reduce the amount of something by means of a control. Such as volume, heat, light, flow of water, air, etc. And so on.
  3. (verb) (idiom) to reposition by turning, flipping, etc. in a downward direction
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