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Bring Down| Verb | 1. | bring down - move something or somebody to a lower position; "take down the vase from the shelf"move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" reef - lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast" depress - lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices" dip - lower briefly; "She dipped her knee" incline - lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow; "She inclined her head to the student" | | | 2. | bring down - cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" | | | 3. | bring down - impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"obtrude, intrude - thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" clamp - impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital" give - inflict as a punishment; "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years" foist - to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me" | | | 4. | bring down - cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"air travel, air, aviation - travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" | | | 5. | bring down - cause to be enthusiastic; "Her playing brought down the house" | | | 6. | bring down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness" quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance cut - have a reducing effect; "This cuts into my earnings" retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench" slash - cut drastically; "Prices were slashed" thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants" thin - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character" deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency" | |
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