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turn down

Separable

Reduce the volume or heat of something

Can you turn the music down? I am on the phone.

Refuse an offer or a person

She turned down the job because of the low salary.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

The particle: down

This verb belongs to the group ‘getting less’.

Others in the group: cut down, slow down.