See take down on Wiktionary
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"singular",
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},
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"text": "He took down the picture and replaced it with the framed photograph.",
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"To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed."
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"_dis1": "53 15 15 1 8 1 0 0 1 2 3 1",
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"text": "If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.",
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"text": "But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name",
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"text": "When everything else is packed, we can take down the tent.",
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"text": "You have been found guilty. Take the prisoner down.",
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"text": "We've got enough evidence now to take McFee down.",
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"text": "I took down the medicine and soon felt better.",
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"ref": "2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 121:",
"text": "Marcus Seltz, who can take down a bucket of crab legs like a freaking combine.",
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"ref": "2012, Kira Sinclair, Take It Down, →ISBN, page 191:",
"text": "It took me eight years to get enough on the asshole to try and take him down.",
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{
"ref": "2014, Mallery Malone, Take Down, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 431:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1880, Albert Adams Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, page 254:",
"text": "\"[…]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;[…]\"",
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"ref": "1948, “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”, Woody Guthrie (lyrics):",
"text": "My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, / And they rode the truck till they took down and died.",
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"glosses": [
"To remove something from a hanging position."
],
"links": [
[
"remove",
"remove"
],
[
"hanging",
"hanging"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "We must take this fake news item down today.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove something from a website."
],
"links": [
[
"remove",
"remove"
],
[
"website",
"website"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:",
"text": "But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken."
],
"links": [
[
"write",
"write"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "When everything else is packed, we can take down the tent.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding."
],
"links": [
[
"temporary",
"temporary"
],
[
"scaffolding",
"scaffolding"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The doctor asked me to take down my trousers.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lower an item of clothing without removing it."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You have been found guilty. Take the prisoner down.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "We've got enough evidence now to take McFee down.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To arrest someone or to place them in detention."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I took down the medicine and soon felt better.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 121:",
"text": "Marcus Seltz, who can take down a bucket of crab legs like a freaking combine.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To swallow."
],
"links": [
[
"swallow",
"swallow"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012, Kira Sinclair, Take It Down, →ISBN, page 191:",
"text": "It took me eight years to get enough on the asshole to try and take him down.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Mallery Malone, Take Down, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 431:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person)."
],
"links": [
[
"defeat",
"defeat"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
],
[
"kill",
"kill"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"striking",
"striking"
],
[
"grappling",
"grappling"
],
[
"jujitsu",
"jujitsu"
],
[
"mixed martial arts",
"mixed martial arts"
]
],
"qualifier": "combat sports",
"raw_glosses": [
"(combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1880, Albert Adams Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, page 254:",
"text": "\"[…]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;[…]\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1948, “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)”, Woody Guthrie (lyrics):",
"text": "My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, / And they rode the truck till they took down and died.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue."
],
"links": [
[
"collapse",
"collapse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to take the volume down a bit",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reduce."
],
"links": [
[
"reduce",
"reduce"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To reduce."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"word": "décrocher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"word": "herunternehmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"word": "abnehmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "abmachen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"word": "levesz"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snimatʹ",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "снимать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed",
"word": "descolgar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to remove something from a hanging position",
"word": "dépendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a hanging position",
"word": "abhängen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a hanging position",
"word": "abnehmen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to remove something from a hanging position",
"word": "levesz"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snimatʹ",
"sense": "to remove something from a hanging position",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "снимать"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove something from a website",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "runternehmen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "noter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "niederschreiben (literarily)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "aufschreiben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "notieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "leír"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "lejegyez"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapisyvatʹ",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "записывать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "anotar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "write a note, usually recording something that is said",
"word": "apuntar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "démonter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "demontieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "abbauen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "entfernen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "rückbauen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "lebont"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubratʹ",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "убрать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding",
"word": "desmontar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"word": "baisser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"word": "herunterlassen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"word": "herunterstreifen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"word": "lejjebb enged"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prispustitʹ",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "приспустить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lower an item of clothing without removing it",
"word": "bajarse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "combat sports",
"word": "niederwerfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "umhauen"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"word": "leag"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zdejmować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zdjąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rzucać na matę"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rzucić na matę"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "combat sports",
"word": "derrubar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uronitʹ",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"perfective",
"slang"
],
"word": "уронить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"word": "derribar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "combat sports",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fällning"
}
],
"word": "take down"
}
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