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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lower, take down, let down, get down, bring downverb

    move something or somebody to a lower position

    "take down the vase from the shelf"

  2. overthrow, subvert, overturn, bring downverb

    cause the downfall of; of rulers

    "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"

  3. inflict, bring down, visit, imposeverb

    impose something unpleasant

    "The principal visited his rage on the students"

  4. land, put down, bring downverb

    cause to come to the ground

    "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"

  5. bring downverb

    cause to be enthusiastic

    "Her playing brought down the house"

  6. 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

  1. bring downverb

    To make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.

  2. bring downverb

    To reduce

  3. bring downverb

    To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground. Usually by firing a weapon of some kind.

  4. bring downverb

    To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.

  5. bring downverb

    To make someone feel bad emotionally.

ChatGPT

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bring down in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bring down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bring down in a Sentence

  1. Arpit Dhupar:

    We are aiming to bring down pollution levels in the major cities by a very significant percentage in a very short span of time.

  2. Nishant Mehta:

    We will be spending a lot of time optimizing what datawe want to bring down, working with the scientists to figure out what's most interesting.

  3. Joe Biden:

    Coming off of last year's historic economic growth -- and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis -- it's no surprise that the economy is slowing down as the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation.

  4. Nicky Fox:

    We're very happy, we've managed to bring down at least twice as much data as we originally suspected we'd get from those first two perihelion passes.

  5. Mylene Scholnick:

    Fuel is definitely an issue and it is eating into profitability, when fuel comes down, the airlines keep aircraft longer, so we had seen ages pushed to 28, 30 years. Now with fuel back up, it won't bring down the retirement age drastically but will stabilize it at around 25 years.


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