take down

Verb

Meaning

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

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When 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

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