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Bring down

verb

Move something or somebody to a lower position. Synonyms: get down, let down, lower, take down.

Cause the downfall of; of rulers. Synonyms: overthrow, overturn, subvert. "Subvert the ruling class"

Impose something unpleasant. Synonyms: impose, inflict, visit.

Cause to come to the ground. Synonyms: land, put down.

Cause to be enthusiastic.

Cut down on; make a reduction in. Synonyms: cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down. "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

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"Bring down" Quotes from Famous Books

... gun and pencil, went through the forests of America to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after years of toil and exposure completed his manuscript, and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia for a few days of recreation and rest, and came back and found that the rats had utterly destroyed the manuscript; but ...

— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage

... The first is, that if we once abandoned our stronghold, which we have held from the beginning, Lobengula would take it, and keep it, so that we could never re-enter into our heritage, which would be a shame to us and bring down the vengeance of the spirits of our ancestors upon our heads. The second is, that as you have returned to us ...

— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard

... under that sobriquet. The reasoning in it will enable the reader to understand the life and character of Ninon, inasmuch as it was the foundation of her education, and formed her character during an extraordinarily long career. It was intended to bring down to its date, the true philosophical principles of Epicurus, who appears to have been grossly misunderstood and ...

— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... ancient times there was a King fond of hunting. He was ever giving reins to the courser of his desire in the pursuit of game, and was always casting the lasso of gladness over the neck of sport. Now this King had a Hawk, who at a single flight could bring down a pebble from the peak of the Caucasus, and in terror of whose claws the constellation Aquila kept himself in the green nest of the sky; and the King had a prodigious fondness for this Hawk and always cared for it with ...

— The Talking Beasts • Various

... was alert and quick of foot, and strong to bear the burdens of motherhood; for even in the shadow of his decline he still held to the hope of his youth—that he might leave a son behind him to guard his acres and bring down his name. ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

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