letting down

1. 1.

   the act of causing something to move to a lower level

   Synonymslowering

   Broadermovement

Questions about letting down

What does letting down mean?

letting down means "the act of causing something to move to a lower level".

What is another word for letting down?

Close synonyms include lowering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is letting down a common word?

letting down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.