Words in english starting with C

• cool down — Verb – English ～ loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
• cool down — Verb – English ～ lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"
• chop down — Verb – English ～ cut down; "George chopped down the cherry tree"
• choke down — Verb – English ～ suppress; "He choked down his rage"
• clamp down — Verb – English ～ repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable); "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"
• cascade down — Verb – English ～ rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
• cast down — Verb – English ～ lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
• climb down — Verb – English ～ come down; "the birds alighted"
• come down — Verb – English ～ be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
• come down — Verb – English ～ fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
• come down — Verb – English ～ move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
• close down — Verb – English ～ cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop"
• come down — Verb – English ～ get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
• come down — Verb – English ～ criticize or reprimand harshly; "The critics came down hard on the new play"
• climb-down — Noun – English ～ a retraction of a previously held position
• Churchill Downs — Noun – English ～ a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Louisville; site of the Kentucky Derby
• Conan Doyle — Noun – English ～ British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
• Callisaurus draconoides — Noun – English ～ swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico
• closet drama — Noun – English ～ drama more suitable for reading that for performing
• Central Dravidian — Noun – English ～ a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India

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