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What (who) is take down - definition
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Take down; Takedowns; Take downs; Take-down; Take-downs; Takedown (disambiguation); Take Down; Take Down (film); Takedown (film); Takedown (book)
take down
v. (D; tr.) ('to write down') to take down in (to take testimony down in shorthand)
take down
1.
Take from above.
2.
Reduce, lower, depress.
3.
Humble, abash, humiliate.
4.
Pull to pieces, pull down.
5.
Swallow, take.
6.
Record, note, make a note of, write down.
7.
Attack.
take down
1.
If you take something down, you reach up and get it from a high place such as a shelf.
Alberg took the portrait down from the wall...
Gil rose and went to his bookcase and took down a volume.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
2.
If you take down a structure, you remove each piece of it.
The Canadian army took down the barricades erected by the Indians...
They put up the bird table, but it got in everyone else's way so Les tried to take it down.
? put up
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
3.
If you take down a piece of information or a statement, you write it down.
We've been trying to get back to you, Tom, but we think we took your number down incorrectly...
I took down his comments in shorthand.
= write down
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
Examples of use of take down
1. "Take down their water and electricity," was the response.
2. "That‘s how they take down Mob kingpins," Petrocelli said.
3. If they clogged completely, they would take down the system.
4. So I thought we might go to see the Packers take down the Raiders.
5. "I will take down every stone with my husband," she said.