turn down

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• adjust a control on a device to reduce the volume or level.

• "she turned the sound down"

Similar: reduce, lower, decrease, lessen, muffle, mute,

Opposite: turn up,

• reject something offered or proposed.

• "his novel was turned down by publisher after publisher"

Similar: reject, spurn, rebuff, refuse, decline, say no to, give the thumbs down to, give the red light to, knock back,

Opposite: accept,

• a rejection or refusal.

• "no idea should meet a flat turndown if there's a chance of a pay-off"

• a decline in something; a downturn.

• "the company has suffered a dramatic turndown after a storm of bad publicity"

• (of a collar) turned down.