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taking downverbpresent participle of take down to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthere's no need to take us down by making fun of our clothes abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing to take apartelectricians will take down all the lights for the set after the play has finished its run breaking down, demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, dismounting, knocking down, striking detaching, disengagingbreaking up, disaggregating, disarticulating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, disuniting, dividing, separating assembling, constructing building, erecting, pitchingcombining, uniting to make a written note oftook down the customer's contact information jotting (down), logging, marking, noting, putting down, recording, registering, reporting, setting down, writing down chronicling, minuting, transcribingenregistering, entering, inscribingchalking (up), notching, scoring |