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get down

English

  1. 🔊 take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
    “We began working at dawn”
  2. 🔊 lower (one's body) as by kneeling
    “Get down on your knees!”
  3. 🔊 pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
    “Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!”
  4. 🔊 put down in writing
  5. 🔊 lower someone's spirits
    “These news depressed her”
  6. 🔊 move something or somebody to a lower position
    “take down the vase from the shelf”
  7. 🔊 alight from (a horse)

Spanish

  1. 🔊 bajonear to get down, cause to feel bad

Similar words

begin get start out start set about set out commence write down set down put down swallow depress deject cast down dismay dispirit demoralize demoralise unhorse dismount light get off lower take down