take down

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 )

adjective

1. made or intended to be disassembled

Idioms and Phrases

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

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

Humble or humiliate; see take down a notch .

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

Example Sentences

X, too, has mounted legal challenges against the Indian government's powers to block or take down content.

From BBC

They will because the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs don’t have the firepower necessary to take down these Dodgers in the next round.

From Los Angeles Times

"The country and the people who took down a ban on professional boxing so I could come home - they've been the backbone of my career."

From BBC

The next day, the agency took down the photo and said that no mammal parts had been taken from the beach after all.

From Los Angeles Times

When the UK's National Crime Agency took down the cyber crime gang LockBit they discovered troves of data still on the criminal's servers that victims had paid to be deleted.

From BBC