to criticise someone devastatingly so that it is difficult for them to recover
to hit or shoot someone so that they fall down
to lower your underwear or trousers without taking them off
to remove a prisoner from the place where they stand in a court
to separate a large structure into pieces
to write down information or a statement
Barack Obama just took down Donald Trump
His quill hovered over the notebook in which he had been writing, as though he were going to take down her words.
If Roderick was really upset he would take down his leather shaving strop from its hook in his room and thrash both Anna and Magnus.
Mack and his father were going to take down the storm windows and put the screens on.
The platform was taken down for safety reasons.
The police took down our addresses and phone numbers.
`I want to go deep sea diving... will you take down into your diving bell...?
takes down
taking down
took down
taken down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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