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Take down
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- 1 To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
"He took down the picture and replaced it with the framed photograph."
- 2 make a written note of wordnet
- 3 To remove something from a hanging position.
"We need to take down the curtains to be cleaned."
- 4 tear down so as to make flat with the ground wordnet
- 5 To remove something from a website.
"We must take this fake news item down today."
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- 6 reduce in worth or character, usually verbally wordnet
- 7 To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
"If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number."
- 8 move something or somebody to a lower position wordnet
- 9 To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
"When everything else is packed, we can take down the tent."
- 10 To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
"The doctor asked me to take down my trousers."
- 11 To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
"You have been found guilty. Take the prisoner down."
- 12 To swallow.
"I took down the medicine and soon felt better."
- 13 To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
"It took me eight years to get enough on the asshole to try and take him down."
- 14 To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- 15 To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue. colloquial, intransitive
""[…]I mind the year after we came, my father took down with the ague, and things looked dark enough for a while; but, when old Billy Slater, on the Clear Fork killed a fat cow, he loaded a lot of the choicest on to a horse and brought it to us;[…]""
- 16 To reduce. transitive
"to take the volume down a bit"
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