take sth down
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(REMOVE)
B2 to remove something that is on a wall or something that is temporary, or to remove a structure by separating its different parts:
I took the pictures down.
More examples
- We took down the partitions between our desks.
- After the divorce, my parents took down her photo.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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(WRITE)
to write something that another person has just said:
He took down my address and phone number and said he'd call me.
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Writing & typing
- borrow
- chalk
- chronicle
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write
- write sth up
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