Take Down

Definition: Take Down

Take Down

Verb

1. Move something or somebody to a lower position.

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

3. Make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning".

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

Synonyms: Take Down

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

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.

Disapprobation

Take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue.

Disrepute

Bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two.

Dissuasion

Disenchant,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) a.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Inaction

Undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy.

Record

Verb: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; (remember); commemorate; (celebrate); report; (inform); write, commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return.

Crosswords: Take Down

We're ex-cons working for a clandestine group to take down low-lifes likes you. (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

Take Down (1978)

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

Books

• Intrepid's Last Case: The Super Spy Who Helped Take Down the Nazis Tackles the KGB (reference)

• Take Down Flag & Feed Horses (reference)

• Xiaoyaoshuai : Wuji System Free Fighting Take Down Routine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gorillaz - Phase One - Celebrity Take Down (reference)

• Take Down (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Phase One: Celebrity Take Down [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Expressions using "take down": take down a peg ♦ take down a peg lower ♦ take down a peg or two ♦ take down in shorthand ♦ To take down. Additional references.

Albanian

i çmontueshëm (demountable), çmontim (dismantling). (various references)

Arabic 

‏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, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, tavern), ‏نزع (dig up, disarmament, evisceration, extraction, plucking out, removal, remove, slough, snap, spring, strip, supplant, take off, tear out), ‏دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, nick, notch, note, put down, record, set down, stick down, take notes, tally, transcribe, under, write, write down, write out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), снемам (reach down, take off, unhang), разрушавам (destroy, disrupt, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, throw down, unbuild), разглобявам (disarticulate, disassemble, disjoint, dislocate, take smth. apart, take to bits, take to pieces, unjoint), разглобяема пушка, разглобяем (collapsible, demountable, detachable, knockdown), записвам (get down, log, margin, mark down, note, put down, record, register, set down, sign in, sign up, stick down, write down), правя запис на магнетофон, поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take in, take over, whelm). (various references)

Chinese 

筆錄 (notes, put down, record), 筆記 (a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches, notes). (various references)

Czech

zapsat (enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, input, key in, put down, record, register, write down), zachytit (transcribe), sundat (detach, doff, get down, reach, tumble, tumble down, uncover), spustit (activate, cast, drop, have down, let down, trigger off, turn on), složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, set down, tackle, take, throw), sejmout (cut, remove, take off, unswathe), rozpustit (break up, disband, dismiss, dissolve, fuse, melt, resolve). (various references)

Danish

tag-ned funktioner. (various references)

Dutch

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

Esperanto

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

Finnish

purkaminen (cancellation, demolition, disposal, dissolution, unloading). (various references)

French

noter (take notes), descendre, dépendre, démonter (take apart), démolir (take apart), décoller (take off), baisser, abattre. (various references)

Frisian

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

German

abnehmen (administer, amputate, become less crass, buy, carry out, decline, decrease, deduct, diminish, drop, ebb, extract, flag, go down, hold, inspect, lessen, lift, lose weight, pull off, reduce one's weight, relieve, remove, shrink, slack off, slacken off, slim down, slow down, tail off, take away, take off, thin down, to lose weight, to take down, to take off, unpeg, unship, wane, wanes). (various references)

Greek 

Κατέβασμα, γκρεμίζω (knock down, precipitate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרק (break, crack, decompose, disassemble, dismantle, take apart, take to pieces), ל�"ורי�" (bring down, decrease, depress, let down, lower, sink, subtract). (various references)

Hungarian

szétszedhetõ, szétszedés (dismantling, stripping, taking apart). (various references)

Indonesian

membuka (disclose, open, prelude, unfasten, unfold, untie). (various references)

Italian

rimozione (discharge, dismissal, removal, towing away), registrare (accounting, beeches, book, check in, enrol, enroll, enter, log, note, record, register, set, tally), disfare (defeat, destroy, melt, undo, unfasten, unmake, unpack, unravel, untie, unwrap, wreck), demolire (abate, break down, break up, demolish, disestablish, pull, pull apart, pull down, scrap, shake, shoot down, take, tear down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降ろす (to, to drop, to launch, to lower, to take down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

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

Manx

keim sheese (degradation, demotion), goaill neose. (various references)

Papiamen

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

Pig Latin

aketay ownday

Portuguese

baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, tone down, turn down). (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

разборка (decapsulation, dismantling, picking, resolution, stripping, taking apart), разборный (collapsable, collapsible, demountable, knock down, sectional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stenografisati (take), sneti (bring down, carry down), skinuti (decorticate, divest, do away, doff, get down, pull off, remove, shed, skim, strip, take off, throw off, unfix, unhang, vail), skidati (remove, take off), rasklopljen, rasklopiti (disassemble, dismantle, strip, take apart, ungear), rasklapanje (dismantling, taking apart). (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

ta ner, uppteckna (Chronicle, lay down, make a note of, record, write down), slopa (abolish, break down, demolish, dismantle, pull down, reject), kväsa (quell, suppress), demontera (demount, dismantle, dismount). (various references)

Turkish

yutmak (absorb, buy, choke down, drink in, eat up, elide, engorge, engulf, gulp, gulp down, ingest, pouch, swallow), yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, conceive, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, write, write down, write out), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, unbuild), sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, tear down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch), parçalara ayırmak (break into pieces, cut to pieces, demount, disintegrate, fractionate, partition, partition off, segment, take to pieces), not etmek (jot down, note, note down, record, write down), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take from, take off, unlade), devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), aşağılamak (abase, belittle, give smb. the wall, humiliate, insult, pooh pooh, scorn, talk down). (various references)

Ukrainian

знімати (bare, depose, dismantle, dismount, doff, draw off, get off, skim, take off, uncover), зносити (abide, blow away, demolish, knock down, sit down under, tear down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather), записувати (book, commit to paper, debit, enrol, enroll, mark down, note, notify, pencil, read in, record, set down, write down), проковтувати (devour). (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

Direct Anagrams: takedown.

-2 letters: atoned, awoken, donate, tanked, wanted, wonted.

-3 letters: adown, anode, anted, atone, awned, awoke, dawen, dewan, endow, kendo, knead, naked, noted, oaken, oaten, owned, taken, tawed, toked, token, toned, towed, tweak, waked, waken, waned, woken.

-4 letters: aeon, anew, ante, awed, dank, date, dato, dawk, dawn, dawt, dean, dent, doat, dona, done, dote, down, enow.

+1 letter: takedowns.