to allow someone or something to move to a lower position
to allow the air to go out of something such as a car tyre
to make someone disappointed by not doing something that they are expecting you to do
to make someone or something less likely to be successful or effective
to try to give someone bad news in a way that does not upset them too much
to use the extra cloth in the hem (=bottom fold) of a piece of clothing to make it longer
to work less hard or make more mistakes than the people who you are working with
to work less hard or to make more mistakes than the people who you are working with
And they'll stand anything, even murder, from the person who props them up, except being let down themselves.
Any boy who misbehaves will be letting down the whole school.
Got let down by a colleague of mine, who turns out to have too many fish to fry.
I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd somehow let down Will by telling everything I knew about that night.
I was a bit late but I couldn’t let them down completely.
Let the bucket down carefully into the well.
Lying with his head in her lap, Will was relaxed enough to let down some of his defences, to trust her with an occasional truth.
She’s a great player, and never lets her team down.
The families of the victims feel that the justice system has let them down.
The whole system is let down by the poor quality of the graphics.
lets down
letting down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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