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Noun letting down has 1 sense
- lowering, letting down - the act of causing something to move to a lower level
--1 is a kind of movement
Verb let down has 2 senses
- lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down - move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf"
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- disappoint, let down - fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
--2 is one way to thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to let down Sue
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