Verb
move something or somebody to a lower position
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
tear down so as to make flat with the ground
make a written note of
Source: WordNetWhen you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling. Lynn Collins
All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. There's no one server that can die and take down the service. Ray Ozzie
Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up. Italian Proverb
Take down a rogue from the gallows and he will hang you up. French Proverb