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turns down

verb as in reject

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But this season he turns down the wattage, playing a darkly serious role in a play said to be about fly-fishing.

He regularly turns down speaking and consulting work that he deems equally distracting.

The road then turns down the hill to the right, into a dry branch, which it descends to Big Timber creek, where we encamped.

When he turns down a man, the man doesn't go on his way rejoicing.

We must have socks and boots, and a good thick overcoat, with a seal-skin cap that turns down at the ears, and yarn mittins.

He always turns down the water-stairs, comes up again, and then goes on down the Waterloo Road.

How he flashes upon the sight as he grasps the spurious insect, and turns down with a quick little slap of the tail!

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to turn down, such as: dismiss, rebuff, refuse, spurn, decline, and disapprove.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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