brought down

Synonyms

down fell defeated diminished slain beat down humbled

Antonyms

pressed fortified awakened braced spurred stirred
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Examples

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. Garrison Keillor

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control. Michael Moore

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. Chris Chocola

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. William Vickrey

Mind and matter brought down to the essential, to the consciousness and its object, form a natural whole, and the difficulty does not consist in uniting but in separating them. Alfred Binet

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. Harold Macmillan

Words in the phrase

brought down

Close letter words and terms

brought alive brought back brought comfort brought down to earth brought forth brought forward