talk down
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
talk down
v 1: belittle through talk
2: speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child; "He talks
down to her"
3: direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing)
via radio; "the control tower talked down the plane whose
pilot fell ill"
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "talk down":
alight, come down, come in, crash-land, descend, ditch, downwind,
filibuster, land, level off, light, outlast, outspeak, outtalk,
overshoot, pancake, settle down, touch down, upwind
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