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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
Amazon's cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, suffered an outage that took down sites such as Reddit and Snapchat, plunging millions, including yours truly, into existential crises.
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Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
An early-morning software update to DynamoDB, however, contained an error, which took down the service in Northern Virginia.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
In his pocket lies a time-management sheet, his dad’s nice football strategy obsession of choice, living with him to help his son to victory, much like Saturday night at the Rose Bowl when UCLA took down Maryland 20-17 to secure three consecutive victories.
—Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers took down the Milwaukee Brewers, 2-1, on Monday night to steal Game 1 of the NLCS.
—Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Phoenix Beauregard rushed for two touchdowns as Marshfield (3-2) took down Silver Lake 38-14 in the Patriot League.
—Tyler McManus, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Mississippi took down dangerous Tulane with an emphatic victory.
—Erick Smith, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Ouachita 34, Arkansas Tech 30 -- Ouachita head coach Todd Knight became the winningest college coach ever at an Arkansas school as the Tigers took down Southeastern Oklahoma by a final score of 41-21 last Saturday at Cliff Harris Stadium.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
Liberty Township, just miles from Middletown, endured weeks of disruption when a ransomware attack took down its systems.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
An early-morning software update to DynamoDB, however, contained an error, which took down the service in Northern Virginia.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
In his pocket lies a time-management sheet, his dad’s nice football strategy obsession of choice, living with him to help his son to victory, much like Saturday night at the Rose Bowl when UCLA took down Maryland 20-17 to secure three consecutive victories.
—Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers took down the Milwaukee Brewers, 2-1, on Monday night to steal Game 1 of the NLCS.
—Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Phoenix Beauregard rushed for two touchdowns as Marshfield (3-2) took down Silver Lake 38-14 in the Patriot League.
—Tyler McManus, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Mississippi took down dangerous Tulane with an emphatic victory.
—Erick Smith, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Ouachita 34, Arkansas Tech 30 -- Ouachita head coach Todd Knight became the winningest college coach ever at an Arkansas school as the Tigers took down Southeastern Oklahoma by a final score of 41-21 last Saturday at Cliff Harris Stadium.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
Liberty Township, just miles from Middletown, endured weeks of disruption when a ransomware attack took down its systems.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for took down
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There was this huge peak between 2000 and about 2018 where there was a decentralized anti-Fascist movement that’s responsible for Richard Spencer going home, for Matthew Heimbach being humiliated.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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LaBella alleges that she was traumatized and humiliated by the experience.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
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But this freedom evaded Russia because the Soviet system was never fully dismantled.—
Kathleen Collins,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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Though the rookie showed promise in his first NBA action, the Celtics were dominated on the glass, dismantled in transition and thumped on both ends of the court throughout a destructive second quarter.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Security cameras along the edge of the trail also allegedly recorded Tillman throwing the victim's underwear over a fence.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Still, such men recorded the poems, songs, myths, stories and place names of Tonga, and without such records, the stories of (mythical?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Palestinian Authority, long discredited in the West Bank, has been absent in Gaza.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Colorado contends its law simply regulates licensed therapists by banning a practice that major medical groups have deemed harmful and discredited.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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An appeals court knocked down the fine in August but otherwise kept the case intact.—
Surina Venkat,
The Hill,
24 Oct. 2025
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You were knocked down by a bicycle on Columbus Avenue.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One day in March, Higginbotham logged onto a Zoom call with Frank Perri, the director of the Philadelphia Hypnosis Center.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The health agency has logged 20 outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness on cruise ships that met its threshold for public notification this year, 15 of which were caused by norovirus.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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French authorities have arrested several suspects after a frantic manhunt for the men who staged a spectacular daytime heist at the Louvre museum that gripped the world and embarrassed the government in Paris.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Revolution provided a brief scare through a 59th-minute goal from Dor Turgeman, who embarrassed a defender before curling home a spectacular effort, but Inter Miami broke the tie almost immediately after the strike that made the score 2-1.—
Franco Panizo,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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That correlation shifted in 2018, demonstrating that macroeconomic conditions and federal budgets have become increasingly disconnected.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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The conventional wisdom sees meager job growth as largely a result of immigration restrictions and demographics, disconnected from still-healthy GDP-tracking models that capture urgent capex levels and free spending by the affluent.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Took down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/took%20down. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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