Verb
(transitive, idiomatic) To lose courage or cause to lose courage.
(transitive) To reduce in manpower.
(transitive, chiefly falconry) To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. Booker T. Washington
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. George MacDonald
Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed. Michael Moorcock
I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down. Dakota Johnson
Rich man down and poor man up- they are still not even. Yiddish Proverb