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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept, have, take]
2: refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" [syn: reject, turn down, turn away, refuse] [ant: admit, allow in, intromit, let in]
3: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down]
4: take a downward direction; "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"
5: make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio" [syn: turn down, lower, lour]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 1601 transitive verb 1. to fold or double down 2. to turn (a card) face downward 3. to reduce the height or intensity of by turning a control <turn down the radio> 4. to decline to accept ; reject <turned down the offer> intransitive verb to be capable of being folded or doubled down <the collar turns down>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down... Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine? = reject PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron) 2. When you turn down a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you reduce the amount of sound or heat being produced, by adjusting the controls. He kept turning the central heating down... She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume. ? turn up PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Fold down, double down.

Moby Thesaurus

be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, convert, decline, decline to accept, disagree, disallow, disapprove, disclaim, dismiss, dissent, evert, hold out against, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, negate, negative, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not think of, pronate, refuse, refuse consent, reject, reprobate, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, resupinate, reverse, revolve, rotate, say nay, say no, spurn, stand aloof, supinate, transpose, turn about, turn around, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down, vote nay, vote negatively