turning down
Saying no to
Turning down is rejecting or declining something offered: She's turning down the job offer, He keeps turning down my invitations.
It also means reducing intensity or volume: turning down the music, turning down the heat.
To turn down a bed is to fold back the covers in preparation for sleeping.
- rejectingRefusing to accept
- quietingMaking something still
- refusalAct of declining
- flat outTotally, without reservation
- attenuatingReducing in force
saying no · snubbing · rebuffing · decline · spurning · hard pass · muting · deny · cold shoulder · lowering · vetoing · dismissing · softening · decreasing · diminishing · reducing · passed up · knocked back
- quietingsilencing, hushing, quieting, muffling, noise canceling
- repudiatingrenouncing, disclaiming, rejecting, disavowing, disowning
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- service tasksserving, greeting, seating, booking, checking in
turning downaccepting
Willing to receive
approving · taking up · embracing · welcoming · going along with
turning downturning up
Arriving or increasing
cranking up · raising · increasing · folding up · boosting
turn, down, return, turning, turned, turns, returning, overturned, turned down