Pull Down

Definition: Pull Down

Pull Down

Verb

1. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled".

2. Cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pull Down

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Crosswords: Pull Down

That kinda lovin' makes me wanna pull down the shade, (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith)

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Books

• Pull Down a Horseman & Gale Day (reference)

• You Can Pull Down Strongholds and Break Old Habits (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• First Pull Up, Then Pull Down (reference)

• Pull Down the Curtain (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pull Down Screen Hw-wallscr84 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Whether they are herein made the tools of cunninger workmen, to pull down their own fabric, they were best look. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Expression using "pull down": To pull down. Additional references.

Albanian

prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), zbret (land, touch down), vë poshtë, ulet (land, light, perch, put down), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), shemb (collapse, contuse, demolish, tear down), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هشم (pulverize, shatter, smash, stave), ‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck), ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, run down, subvert, tear down, throw down), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), смъквам (bring down, divest, let down, rip away, rip off, shuffle off, tear down, tear off, throw off), разрушавам (destroy, disrupt, havoc, ravage, ruin, take down, throw down, unbuild), печеля добре, печеля (earn, gain, get, harvest, profit, realize, score, take in, win), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull at, pull away, pull in, retract, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch, withdraw), докарвам си (bring in, pick up). (various references)

Czech

ztrhnout, zkazit (make a hash of, poison, spoil, unsettle), strhnout (break, break down, carry away, demolish, raze, strip, tear away, tear down, tear off), stlaèit (compress, depress, press down, squeeze), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, put down, reduce, whittle away). (various references)

Dutch

slopen (break down, consume, demolish, take down, use up), neerhalen (break down, demolish, lower, take down), afbreken (break, break down, break off, cry down, cut, cut a connection, cut up, demolish, divide, pick, pluck, pull to pieces, run down, separate, share, stop, take down, tear off, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

malkonstrui (break down, demolish, take down). (various references)

Finnish

purkaa (demolish, discharge, dismantle, take apart, take out, take to pieces, unbox, undo, unload, unpack, unpick). (various references)

French

démolir (pull to pieces), abattre (put down). (various references)

Frisian

ôfbrekke (break, break down, break off, demolish, interrupt, pick, pluck, stop, take down, tear off). (various references)

German

herunterreißen (pull off, rip down, tear down, whip off). (various references)

Greek 

κατεδαφίζω (demolish, dismantle, rase, raze, tear down, wreck). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רוס (bane, blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck), ל� תץ (demolish, destroy, disrupt, smash), ל� סוח (eradicate, tear away, uproot). (various references)

Hungarian

leránt (scarify, slate, to flay, to slash, to snatch off, to whip off, to yank off), lehúz (draw off, pull off, to chug sg, to draw down, to impress, to proof, to pull, to pull down, to strip), leenged (depress, ground, let down, lower, to deflate, to let down, to lower, to pull down), ledönt (-threw, -thrown, to cut down, to demolish, to fell, to knock over, to overthrow, to tip down, to topple, topple), elkedvetlenít (dishearten, disincline, to deject, to depress, to discourage, to disincline, to get sy down, to put off). (various references)

Italian

tirar giù, rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, put pay, ruin, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), demolire (abate, break down, break up, demolish, disestablish, pull, pull apart, scrap, shake, shoot down, take, take down, tear down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag), 崩す (to destroy, to make change, to pull down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle), くずす (to destroy, to make change, to pull down), ひきたおす (to pull down), ひきおとす (to automatically debit, to pull down), ひきさ�'る (to lower, to pull down, to reduce, to withdraw), とり�"わす (to demolish, to tear or pull down). (various references)

Manx

tayrn neose (let down, moot, rake up, serve up, slip on), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull over, raze, run down, topple, tumble). (various references)

Papiamen

basha abou (break down, demolish, take down). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pother, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), pôr de pernas para o ar (overturn), varar (overthrow, overturn), desmantelar (demolish, dismantle, take apart, tear down), derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), demolir (break down, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, level, pulverize, quash, rase, raze, unbuild, wrack, wreck), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, let up, lower, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, tone down, turn down). (various references)

Romanian

demola (break down, demolish, destroy, knock down, raze, take down). (various references)

Russian 

сносить (knock off, raze, stomach, tear down), снести (blow off, demolish, pile up, take), опрокидывать (capsize, dump, fall over, keel over, overset, overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, tilt, trip, upend, upset, upturn), одергивать (straighten), изнурять (emaciate, exhaust, macerate, rack, tucker out). (various references)

Scottish

sgrog (the head or side of the head, va. pull down the head covering firmly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući nadole, porušiti (demolish, destroy, level, rase, raze, subvert, tear down), natući. (various references)

Spanish

derribar (batter down, blow down, break down, bring down, demolish, fell, floor, knock down, knock over, lay, lay out, level, overthrow, take down, throw, topple, upset), demoler (break down, demolish, knock down, snap out, take down, tear off). (various references)

Swedish

slopa (abolish, break down, demolish, dismantle, reject, take down), rullgardin (blind, pull-down, roller-blind, shade), riva ned, dra ner (let down, make dirty). (various references)

Turkish

para kazanmak (coin, earn, earn money, knock up, make money), sağlığını bozmak (disorder). (various references)

Ukrainian

виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, drain, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, sap, use up, waste), опускати (cast down, decay, demit, down, let down, lower, omit, put down, sink), зривати (pick off, pluck, snatch off, tear down). (various references)

conplananda, conplanata, conplanavit, deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, destruam, destruantur, destruas, destruatur, destructa, destructae, destructam, destructi, destructum, destrue, destruendi, destruens, destruent, destruentes, destruentur, destruere, destrueret, destrues, destruesque, destruet, destruetur, destrui, destruimus, destruit, destruo, destruxerant, destruxerit, destruxerunt, destruxeruntque, destruxi, destruxisti, destruxistis, destruxit, destruxitque, diruam, diruerunt, diruta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: pound, would, wound.

-4 letters: doll, down, dull, loud, loup, lown, null, plod, plow, poll, pond, pull, undo, updo, upon, wold.

-5 letters: dol, don, dow, dun, duo, dup, lop, low, nod, now, old, oud, owl, own, pod, pol, pow, pud, pul, pun, udo, upo, won, wop, wud.