Takedown

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the capability of being taken down or apart: a takedown rifle; a takedown scaffold.
  • n. An article or apparatus that can be taken down or apart.
  • n. The mechanism that allows an article or apparatus to be easily taken down.
  • n. Sports A move or maneuver in wrestling or the martial arts in which a standing opponent is forced to the floor.
  • n. Informal The act of humiliating a person.
  • n. Informal An instance of such humiliation: She gave you quite a takedown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
  • n. A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.
  • n. Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position
  • n. a crushing remark
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pin    fall    derision   
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    take-down    quick-release    forend    disassembly    imagin