get down

Verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  • We began working at dawn
    
  • Who will start?
    
  • Get working as soon as the sun rises!
    
  • The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
    
  • He began early in the day
    
  • Let's get down to work now
    

• put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  • These news depressed her
    
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
    

• pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
  • Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!
    

• alight from (a horse)

• move something or somebody to a lower position
  • take down the vase from the shelf
    

• lower (one's body) as by kneeling
  • Get down on your knees!
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  begin , get , start out , start , set about , set out , commence , write down , set down , put down , depress , deject , cast down , dismay , dispirit , demoralize , demoralise , swallow , unhorse , dismount , light , get off , lower , take down , let down , bring down
• Antonyms: 
  end , terminate , elate , lift up , uplift , pick up , intoxicate , raise , lift , elevate , get up , bring up