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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf" [syn: lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down] [ant: bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise]
2: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" [syn: take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down]
3: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up]
4: make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning" [syn: note, take down]

Merriam Webster's

verb Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to lower without removing <took down his pants> 2. a. to pull to pieces <take down a building> b. disassemble <take a rifle down> 3. to lower the spirit or vanity of 4. a. to write down <took down some notes> b. to record by mechanical means intransitive verb to become seized or attacked especially by illness

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you take something down, you reach up and get it from a high place such as a shelf. Alberg took the portrait down from the wall... Gil rose and went to his bookcase and took down a volume. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron) 2. If you take down a structure, you remove each piece of it. The Canadian army took down the barricades erected by the Indians... They put up the bird table, but it got in everyone else's way so Les tried to take it down. ? put up PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If you take down a piece of information or a statement, you write it down. We've been trying to get back to you, Tom, but we think we took your number down incorrectly... I took down his comments in shorthand. = write down PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Take from above. 2. Reduce, lower, depress. 3. Humble, abash, humiliate. 4. Pull to pieces, pull down. 5. Swallow, take. 6. Record, note, make a note of, write down. 7. Attack.

Moby Thesaurus

abase, abash, admonish, bear down, beat down, blow down, blow over, book, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bring low, bring to book, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, calendar, call to account, carve, cast down, catalog, chalk, chalk up, chastise, check in, chide, chop down, chronicle, consume, correct, couch, crush, cut, cut down, dash down, debase, deck, degrade, demean, demolish, depress, detrude, devour, diminish, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, dismount, dispatch, dispose of, docket, down, downbear, drop, dump, dump on, eat up, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, fell, fetch down, file, fill out, flatten, floor, get away with, get down, grave, ground, haul down, have words with, hew down, impanel, incise, indent, index, ingest, inscribe, insert, jot down, knock down, knock over, lay level, lay low, lay out, lecture, let down, level, list, log, lower, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, minute, mow down, note, note down, objurgate, place upon record, poll, post, post up, precipitate, press down, prostrate, pull down, push down, put away, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, rase, rate, raze, rebuke, record, reduce, reduce to writing, register, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, send headlong, set down, set straight, sink, smash, spank, spread-eagle, steamroller, straighten out, supinate, surround, swallow, tabulate, take apart, take in, take to task, tape, tape-record, tear down, throw, throw down, thrust down, topple, trip, trip up, tuck in, tumble, upbraid, videotape, whack down, write, write down, write in, write out, write up