What does talk down mean?

talk down means "belittle through talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is talk down a common word?

talk down is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

talk down — meaning, pronunciation and 3 definitions

verb

3 sensesAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
belittle through talk
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2.
speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child
“He talks down to her”
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3.
direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio
“the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill”
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