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Get down

verb

Lower (one's body) as by kneeling.

Move something or somebody to a lower position. Synonyms: bring down, let down, lower, take down.

Alight from (a horse). Synonyms: dismount, get off, light, unhorse.

Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking. Synonym: swallow.

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit. "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.. Synonyms: put down, set down, write down.

Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. Synonyms: begin, commence, get, set about, set out, start, start out. "Who will start?" , "Get working as soon as the sun rises!" , "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia" , "He began early in the day" , "Let's get down to work now"

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"Get down" Quotes from Famous Books

... the door of her grimy, branch-line carriage, and began to get down her bags. The porter was nowhere, of course, but there was Harry, obscure, on the outer edge of the little crowd, missing her, ...

— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence

... said, "I will go round outside the park. It will take us a little longer, but it will be simpler than backing and manoeuvring here now.... These electric starters are remarkably convenient things. Otherwise now I should have to get down ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... sun had loosened the snow, which was now in a treacherous condition, and we had to pick our way carefully. Looking back, we could see that a fog was rolling up behind us and meeting in the valleys a fog that was coming up from the east. The creeping grey clouds were a plain warning that we must get down to ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... the gravel court. The "galerie" has arrived—with the smallest of the three daughters inside, all out of breath from her run and terribly excited. There are the trunks and the valises and the bicycle in its crate to get down. Two soldiers, who have been calling on two of the daughters, come up to the studio and kindly offer their assistance. There is no time to lose, and in single file the procession starts down the atelier stairs, headed by Pere ...

— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith

... said the Sergeant. "Well, they'd have two men, any way, in that wagon. Get down and picket. We'll find the other fellow somewhere ...

— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss

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