Crossword-Solution: COMEDOWN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comedown | n. | A downfall; an humiliation. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “COMEDOWN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| decline to a lower status or level | 1 answer |
| Status loss. | 1 answer |
| Humiliating setback. | 1 answer |
| Do a joyful "The Price is Right" action | 1 answer |
| Decline in status | 1 answer |
| A loss of status | 2 answers |
| Bathos | 8 answers |
| ANTICLIMAX | 10 answers |
| Demotion | 47 answers |
| chastening | 51 answers |
| hard life | 54 answers |
| disconcertment | 54 answers |
| Breakdown | 56 answers |
| Waterloo | 57 answers |
| frustration | 57 answers |
| fall down | 58 answers |
| Tumble | 60 answers |
| disintegration | 60 answers |
| harassment | 60 answers |
| mishap | 61 answers |
| deterrent | 61 answers |
| trauma | 61 answers |
| Disappointment | 62 answers |
| CAVE (IN) | 62 answers |
| conquest | 62 answers |
| Beating | 63 answers |
| Undoing | 64 answers |
| Topple | 65 answers |
| Wreckage | 65 answers |
| backset | 65 answers |
| founder | 65 answers |
| Devastation | 66 answers |
| discomfiture | 68 answers |
| Downfall | 68 answers |
| slide | 69 answers |
| Humiliation | 70 answers |
| flounder | 70 answers |
| Destruction | 71 answers |
| eradication | 71 answers |
| Chagrin | 72 answers |
| Disaster | 73 answers |
| Struggle | 74 answers |
| Adversity | 74 answers |
| Overthrow | 75 answers |
| Vexation | 75 answers |
| unease | 75 answers |
| Affliction | 75 answers |
| desolation | 75 answers |
| abashment | 79 answers |
| Shock | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMEDOWN (5)
This was a great comedown, from the highest seat in the synagogue to a seat in the galley with the black cook.
There was a comedown now of feathered hats, and point collars, and curled hair; and leathern jerkin should have its day.
And it was not until he had appealed, in vain to all his social friends to relieve him of the necessity of my aid, not until he realized that I was his only hope of escaping a sharp comedown from luxury to very modest comfort in a flat somewhere--not until then did his wife send me an invitation to dinner.
When you told me about him, in your kind way, I thought he was just what I was looking for, but when you fetched him to me that day at Carlton it was an awful comedown.
This was not very much to his taste; besides the comedown from captain to lieutenant, the aristocrats who predominated among French naval officers regarded a privateersman, thus pitchforked in among them, with a very supercilious air, and made things decidedly unpleasant for him.
Quotes with COMEDOWN (3)
In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The …
My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do another line. Like I said, a cycle.
When you get high on something - including "spiritual bliss" - there is always going to be a low. The comedown is your body / mind returning to balance, or the closest thing to balance that it knows. If you desperately crave bliss while your body / mind needs balance, you are bound to label the changeover as "feeling bad," when in fact it's the best thing that can happen. Zen practice is not about getting high on anything and in so doing, getting high on absolutely everything…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1955–2013).