take down
See also: takedown
English edit
Verb edit
take down (third-person singular simple present takes down, present participle taking down, simple past took down, past participle taken down)
- 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.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- We need to take down the curtains to be cleaned.
- To remove something from a website.
- We must take this fake news item down today.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:
- But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- When everything else is packed, we can take down the tent.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- The doctor asked me to take down my trousers.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- You have been found guilty. Take the prisoner down.
- We've got enough evidence now to take McFee down.
- To swallow.
- 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 121:
- Marcus Seltz, who can take down a bucket of crab legs like a freaking combine.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- 2012, Kira Sinclair, Take It Down, →ISBN, page 191:
- It took me eight years to get enough on the asshole to try and take him down.
- 2014, Mallery Malone, Take Down, →ISBN:
- They'd had occasion to see Peyton Armistead in all his righteous fury and she knew they wouldn't hesitate to take him down if she gave the word.
- 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 431:
- So Marinus, me and a few other unthanked individuals - Atemporals for the most part, with some mortal collaborators — make it our business to ...take them down.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- 1880, Albert Adams Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, page 254:
- " […] 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; […]"
- 1948, “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”, Woody Guthrie (lyrics):
- My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, / And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- to take the volume down a bit
Translations edit
to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed
to remove something from a hanging position
to remove something from a website
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write a note, usually recording something that is said
remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding
lower an item of clothing without removing it
combat sports
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