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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

... way," said the Princess, in a tone of annoyance. "I do not know where I am. We had better go back and turn down the main staircase, even if we meet some one. You see, I never come to this part ...

— In The Palace Of The King - A Love Story Of Old Madrid • F. Marion Crawford

... aware of his danger, some fifty men were assembled, and at once made a dash at the driver, and ordered him to stop. Captain Howell, quickly drawing his revolver, pointed it at the driver, and ordered him to turn down Thirty-first Street, and give his horses the whip, or he would shoot him on the spot. The man obeying, lashed his horses into a run. At this moment the crowd was all around the carriage, and one man was climbing up behind, when he ...

— The Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 • J.T. Headley

... Roberts because Ralph has been here four months and has borne the heat and burden of the day, so although I only came in order to be with Roberts and Kitchener I could not ask to have Ralph recalled— They wanted me with Roberts and I wanted it but none of us could make up our minds to turn down Ralph. So I am going up on this side track on the chance of seeing Ladysmith relieved and of joining Roberts with Buller later. I shall be satisfied if I see Ladysmith fall. Fortunately I am to do a great deal of cabling for The Mail every day and ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... we ought to turn down somewhere? I don't see poppa anywhere." He rose and looked anxiously back over the top of their carriage. The crowd, closing in behind it, hailed his troubled face with cries that were taken up by the throng on the sidewalks. Boyne turned about to find that the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... who now appeared in the doorway, a bucket in his hand, straight from the stables where he had been giving my father's roan horse a drench. Billy's summons must have hurried him, for he had not even waited to turn down his shirt-sleeves: but as plainly it had given him no sort of notion why he was wanted and in the State Room. I guessed indeed that on his way he had caught up the bucket supposing that the house was afire. At sight of the monks he set it down slowly, gently, staring at them the while, ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

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