VERB
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move something or somebody to a lower position
take down the vase from the shelf -
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
She tends to put down younger women colleagues
His critics took him down after the lecture -
tear down so as to make flat with the ground
The building was levelled -
make a written note of
she noted everything the teacher said that morning
How To Use take down In A Sentence
- He will take down the entire DPVA with his corruptness. Is Sharon Bulova Toast?
- In another setting, a firehouse was ordered to take down its largely secular holiday decorations, because neighbors were offended by it.
- Anything to take down the ELPD a notch is great in my book. The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Police Officer Pulls Over a Law Student
- They are the people fatigue and discouragement will take down first.
- We will probably take down the wall downstairs after that and lay new floor and wallpaper downstairs before they come as well.
- In the outland beyond the city people naturally have stocks on hand, because you never know when the weather will take down your juice and you'll be stuck in the house in February behind four-foot drifts with no phone and no lights.
- I wondered as to where the assistant was located whose duty it was to take down whatever information I might loudly vouchsafe. JOHNNY UPRIGHT
- Overall Disadvantages:Takes most damage, usually dies the most, hard to escape an enemy, hard to take down large groups of mobs, weak vs ranged mobs, lower magical ability.
- Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
- Scarier yet, some deep-sea-dwelling, sci-fi-looking breeds of anglerfish, which attract prey by dangling a bioluminescent lure from their foremost dorsal spine, can take down fish their own size in a single gulp.