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bring down
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Princeton's WordNet
lower, take down, let down, get down, bring downverb
move something or somebody to a lower position
"take down the vase from the shelf"
overthrow, subvert, overturn, bring downverb
cause the downfall of; of rulers
"The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"
inflict, bring down, visit, imposeverb
impose something unpleasant
"The principal visited his rage on the students"
land, put down, bring downverb
cause to come to the ground
"the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
bring downverb
cause to be enthusiastic
"Her playing brought down the house"
reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring downverb
cut down on; make a reduction in
"reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
Wiktionary
bring downverb
To make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.
bring downverb
To reduce
bring downverb
To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground. Usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
bring downverb
To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
bring downverb
To make someone feel bad emotionally.
ChatGPT
bring down
To bring down generally means to cause to fall or collapse; either physically or figuratively. In a physical sense, it can refer to knocking over or demolishing an object or structure. In a figurative sense, it can refer to causing something, such as an organization, a government, or someone's emotional state, to decline, fail or become lower in strength, value or status.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bring down in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bring down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of bring down in a Sentence
Shenhua President Zhang Yuzhuo:
Among big Chinese companies, when it comes to developing clean and renewable energies, we are not lagging behind at all, we are hoping that in 20 or 30 years, we can bring down the costs of non-fossil fuel energies and at the same time raise the scale of construction, and during this process, allow fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels to be harmonised and provide mutual support.
Although we're seeing improvements in some of the red states and some of the states have actually moved from being in a red category -- that was more than 10 % test positivity -- to under 10 %, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia moved back into the yellow states status, their work needs to continue to intensify to continue to bring down case counts.
The history of the government's involvement in the industrial sector has been disappointing, the government's role should be to facilitate...they should introduce policies to attract private investors (such as) to bring down interest rates.
We still need to shave off another 100,000 yen to 200,000 yen to bring down the car’s retail price even lower, into the 500,000-yen to 600,000-yen range, if we are to survive.
The military and the NLD should work together closely and transparently to bring down the divide and promote trust, i couldn't take care of my children and my family for the last five years, so I look forward to seeing them more often once the parliament is over.
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