took down

verb

past tense of take down
1
as in humiliated
to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes there's no need to take us down by making fun of our clothes

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2
as in dismantled
to take apart electricians will take down all the lights for the set after the play has finished its run

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3
as in recorded
to make a written note of took down the customer's contact information

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Recent Examples of took down His Newton team took down previously unbeaten Westlake on a final-minute catch that made DawgNation’s Brandon Adams tax his vocal cords on the call. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Last season, the Cardinals took down Miami in a surprising victory. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Sixteen months after those outages, Philadelphia TRACON lost one circuit, found the other cut and took down the Northeast. — Vincent E. Bianco Iii, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 Milwaukee then took down the 91-win Padres, who were arguably the majors’ best team in September while streaking to 19 wins in 22 games. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Crowley took down Dallas Skyline (52-14) before losing to cross-town rival North Crowley (35-14) before the bye week. — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026 The Rams took down Dobbins behind the line of scrimmage on the first play . — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026 Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026 Miami rolled through Stanford and Florida A&M in the first two games and took down Wake Forest on the road. — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for took down
  1. humiliated
  2. dismantled
  3. recorded
  4. discredited
  5. knocked down
  6. logged
  7. embarrassed
  8. disconnected
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  • One of its proof points was supposed to be Maine, where Graham Platner humiliated the party establishment, then himself.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • But the Saudis, humiliated by their losses in Yemen, seem likely to lash out.
    — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of humiliated
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  • Earlier this week, Variety published an in-depth report detailing how Jair Bolsonaro dismantled Brazil’s audiovisual sector, alerting to a similar future ahead if Flávio Bolsonaro wins the upcoming elections.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Viju Matthew By stripping out shoulder pads and lining, Giorgio Armani quietly dismantled a century of men’s tailoring convention.
    — Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of dismantled
Verb
  • Boosted by Heated Rivalry, Crave recorded just over 5 million subs in Bell’s most recent results, and is eyeing 6 million by end of 2028, but Cohan is thinking beyond that.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Scientists have recorded what happens inside a crystal in the split second before a quantum bit forms.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of recorded
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  • The arrival of Dutch elm disease not only ravaged these green spaces, but discredited the whole goal of aiming for such uniformity.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The issue here is not with this project, which is building something artistic and beautiful, but with a broader, pro-AI tech culture that has discredited AI and its public image.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of discredited
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  • But his backwards pass was knocked down by Oklahoma State’s Christian Bodnar and returned for a touchdown by Jackson.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Courville and Reynolds started filming the neighborhood in 2013, after a redbrick building around the corner on Douglas and Third was knocked down.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of knocked down
Verb
  • The giants of the late 1990s, including Qualcomm, Oracle, and Cisco, logged earnings on par with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft today.
    — RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The centers logged 862 exposures to retatrutide in the three months ending in September, up from 460 in the three months prior and 249 in the first three months of 2026.
    — Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of logged
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  • Over two games in Tampa, the Rays had embarrassed the Yankees – nearly no hitting them in Game 1 and putting the ball in play and watching the errors ensue in Game 2.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Philadelphia embarrassed itself in a non-competitive loss at Chicago on Monday night, unable to go drive-for-drive with journeyman quarterback Case Keenum, a 38-year-old backup’s backup.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of embarrassed
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  • The team also demonstrated that the sheet could reconstruct its overall shape even after some fibers were cut or disconnected.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In the reference test, a desktop computer continued operating without interruption when grid power was suddenly disconnected, and the test was repeated successfully.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of disconnected

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“Took down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/took%20down. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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