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Turn down

verb

Refuse to accept. Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, reject.

Refuse entrance or membership. Synonyms: refuse, reject, turn away. "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

Reject with contempt. Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn.

Take a downward direction.

Make lower or quieter. Synonyms: lour, lower.

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"Turn down" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Rue de Rivoli as far as the Square of the Tour St. Jacques. If driving, alight here. Turn down the Place du Chatelet to your right. In front is the pretty modern fountain of the Chatelet; right, the Theatre du Chatelet; left, the Opera Comique. The bridge which faces you is the Pont- au-Change, so-called from the money-changers' and jewelers' booths which once flanked ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... might be a first-rate risk of its class, and some folks think it's not a bad class, too, when the hazards are properly arranged. I've always thought myself that the bad record on celluloid workers was largely accidental. And I don't see how I can turn down anything that comes from your office—I guess I'll have to help you out with a small line, anyway. Where's your binder? Wait a second, though. Let me look at that map again—I forgot my exposing lines. Well! we ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... listen till he was clear out of the town, and found himself master of the animal, and even then the words were few, and chiefly spoken by Dr. May, until after going along about three miles of the turnpike road, he desired Norman to turn down a ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... Pledge saw them enter very dejectedly at Mr Webster's door, where, not being anxious to disturb them, he left them and took a short turn down the shady side of High Street, within view ...

— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... threatening me; and in my soul there awakens an echo of that cry of approval which almost prostrated me. The effect made upon me was so powerful that at the second representation I had to request them to turn down the footlights in case I should be called out; for the blinding light seemed a hell to me, like a fiery abyss that threatened to ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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