take down

British  

verb

1. to record in writing

2. to dismantle or tear down

   to take down an old shed

3. to lower or reduce in power, arrogance, etc (esp in the phrase to take down a peg )

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adjective

1. made or intended to be disassembled

take down Idioms  

1. Bring from a higher position to a lower one, as in After the sale they took down all the signs . [c. 1300]

2. Take apart, dismantle, as in They took down the scaffolding . [Mid-1500s]

3. Humble or humiliate; see take down a notch .

4. Record in writing, as in Please take down all these price quotations . [Early 1700s]

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Example Sentences

We build everything that day and then we take down that day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

You can’t take down groups unless you have somebody on the inside.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

Elon Musk sparred with lawyers for a third day Thursday at his California trial against OpenAI, struggling to explain why his own for-profit AI empire differs from the one he is trying to take down.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

The market’s focus will remain on geopolitical developments, “with there again being a high likelihood that participants seek to take down risk levels as we move into the weekend,” Pepperstone’s Michael Brown said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Option Two —I could intercept her somewhere out of the way before she made her move to take down Booth.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin