letting down

Meaning

present participle and gerund of let down

let down

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, down.
2. (transitive) To allow to descend.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody.
4. (transitive) To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem.
5. (intransitive) To reduce one's level of effort.
6. To soften in tempering.
7. To thin; to reduce the thickness or viscosity of.

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Synonyms

lowering

count

🔢

counting

dropping

enumeration

glide

gliding

reckoning

tally

computing

throwing down