turn down

turn down

 1) PHRASAL VERB If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer.
  [V n P] Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down...
  [V n P] I thanked him for the offer but turned it down...
  [V P n (not pron)] Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine?
  Syn:
  refuse
 2) PHRASAL VERB 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.
  [V n P] He kept turning the central heating down...
  [V P n (not pron)] She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume.
  Ant:
  turn up
 3) PHRASAL VERB If the rate or level of something turns down, it decreases. [BRIT, JOURNALISM]
  [V P] The divorce rate turned down in the 1950s.(in AM, use fall)