take down

take down
verb
1. move something or somebody to a lower position (Freq. 3)
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take down the vase from the shelf

• Syn: ↑lower, ↑let down, ↑get down, ↑bring down
• Ant: ↑raise (for: ↑lower)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑lower (for: ↑lower), ↑lowering (for: ↑lower)
• Hypernyms: ↑move, ↑displace
• Hyponyms: ↑reef, ↑depress, ↑dip, ↑incline
• Cause: ↑descend, ↑fall, ↑go down, ↑come down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody PP

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Somebody ——s something PP

2. tear down so as to make flat with the ground
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The building was levelled

• Syn: ↑level, ↑raze, ↑rase, ↑dismantle, ↑tear down, ↑pull down
• Ant: ↑raise (for: ↑level)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑razing (for: ↑raze), ↑level (for: ↑level)
• Hypernyms: ↑destroy, ↑destruct
• Hyponyms: ↑bulldoze
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

3. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
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She tends to put down younger women colleagues

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His critics took him down after the lecture

• Syn: ↑degrade, ↑disgrace, ↑demean, ↑put down
• Derivationally related forms: ↑put-down (for: ↑put down), ↑degradation (for: ↑degrade), ↑takedown
• Hypernyms: ↑humiliate, ↑mortify, ↑chagrin, ↑humble, ↑abase
• Hyponyms: ↑reduce, ↑dehumanize, ↑dehumanise
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

4. make a written note of
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she noted everything the teacher said that morning

• Syn: ↑note
• Derivationally related forms: ↑note (for: ↑note), ↑notation (for: ↑note)
• Hypernyms: ↑write down, ↑set down, ↑get down, ↑put down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s that CLAUSE

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take down [phrasal verb]
take down (something) or take (something) down
1 : to remove (something) from the place where it is hanging or standing

She took the books down from the shelf.

I need to take down those curtains and bring them to the dry cleaner's.

Take down that terrible picture of me.

Please, take it down.

He took down the old shed and built a new one.

2 : to lower but not remove (something)

The doctor asked him to take down [=pull down] his pants.

3 : to write (something)

He took her phone number down on a napkin.

Did you take down the car's license number?

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Main Entry: ↑take

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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