TO TAKE DOWN

Definition: TO TAKE DOWN

TO TAKE DOWN

1. (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down.'' --Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: TO TAKE DOWN

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We're ex-cons working for a clandestine group to take down low-lifes likes you. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO TAKE DOWN

Language		Translations for "TO TAKE DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		錄共 (to take down a confession). (various references)

German		herunternehmen (take down, take off), aufschreiben (book, chalk up, get down, list, make a note, note, note down, prescribe, put down, put on the slate, shove down, take smb.'s particulars, to mark down, write, write down). (various references)

Hungarian		leszerel vmit, lejegyez (jot down, to minute, to note down, to put down), eggyel hátrább ültet. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		降ろす (to discharge, to drop, to launch, to letoff, to lower, to unload). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おろす (grated, to discharge, to drop, to launch, to letoff, to lower, to sell wholesale, to unload). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay aketay ownday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: TO TAKE DOWN

Anagrams: TO TAKE DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-n-o-o-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: takedown, teakwood.
	-3 letters: knotted, kotowed, notated, odonate.
	-4 letters: atoned, attend, awoken, donate, notate, tanked, tooted, wanted, wonted, wooden, wotted.
	-5 letters: adown, anode, anted, atone, awned, awoke, datto, dawen, dewan, endow, kendo, knead, kotow, naked, noted, oaken, oaten, odeon, owned, taken, tanto, tawed, toked, token, tondo, toned, toted, towed, tweak, waked, waken, waned, woken, wooed.
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