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Turn down

verb

Refuse to accept. Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, reject. Antonym: accept.

Refuse entrance or membership. Synonyms: refuse, reject, turn away. "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" Antonym: admit.

Reject with contempt. Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn.

Take a downward direction.

Make lower or quieter. Synonyms: lour, lower.

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"Turn down" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Let's turn down London Street," she suggested. "It will be quiet there. I've something to tell you." She rolled her parasol carefully. "And I ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

... effort Howland overcame his drowsiness and dragged himself to a sitting posture, knowing that he should undress and go to bed. The lamp was still burning brightly and he arose to turn down the wick. Suddenly he stopped. To his dulled senses there came distinctly the sound of a knock at the door. For a few moments he waited, silent and motionless. It came again, louder than before, and yet in it there was something of caution. It was not the heavy ...

— The Danger Trail • James Oliver Curwood

... Groups of sheep that had been driven from the larger enclosures to the small pens near the dipping troughs were then hurried, one by one, to the men standing at the head of the troughs; it was the duty of these men to push each sheep in turn down the smooth metal incline into the dip. The sheep slipped in easily. As they swam along through the steaming bath other men were posted midway and when a sheep passed they thrust the head twice under water with their crooks so that the eyes and heads—as well as the bodies—might be cleansed. ...

— The Story of Wool • Sara Ware Bassett

... on the Acropolis do not get turned over so as to see the moon at the same time every night. [Page 110] We turn down our eastern horizon, but we do not find fair Luna at the same moment we did the night before. We are obliged to roll on for some thirty to fifty minutes longer before we find the moon. It must be going in the same direction, and it takes us longer to get round ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... hadn't. She didn't say that it seemed a burden to turn down the covers. Again Kate frowned and smiled. Clearly Miss Moss wasn't ...

— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray

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