1. To criticize or reprimand harshly.
2. When you move to a lower level socially or financially and receive less respect from other people because of this change, you come down in life.
Remain alive, be among the living, survive
1. To continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); SYN. pull through, come through, make it.
2. To continue to live, endure or last; SYN. last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out.