英语词汇“to pull down”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To bring low; to humble, humiliate; to weaken, enfeeble, deplete; to lower the spirits of, to depress. Cf. pluck v. 5b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

anitherOE

fellOE

lowc1175

to lay lowc1225

to set adownc1275

snuba1340

meekc1350

depose1377

aneantizea1382

to bring lowa1387

declinea1400

meekenc1400

to pull downc1425

avalec1430

to-gradea1440

to put downc1440

humble1484

alow1494

deject?1521

depress1526

plucka1529

to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

to bring down1535

to bring basec1540

adbass1548

diminish1560

afflict1561

to take down1562

to throw down1567

debase1569

embase1571

diminute1575

to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

exinanite1577

to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

disbasea1592

to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

comb-cut1593

unpuff1598

atterr1605

dismount1608

annihilate1610

crest-fall1611

demit1611

pulla1616

avilea1617

to put a scorn on, upon1633

mortify1639

dimit1658

to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

humiliate1757

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

squabash1822

to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

embarrass1839

to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

puncture1908

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

flatten1932

to slap (a person) down1938

punk1963

the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak

fellOE

wastec1230

faintc1386

endull1395

resolvea1398

afaintc1400

defeat?c1400

dissolvec1400

weakc1400

craze1476

feeblish1477

debilite1483

overfeeble1495

plucka1529

to bring low1530

debilitate1541

acraze1549

decaya1554

infirma1555

weaken1569

effeeble1571

enervate1572

enfeeble1576

slay1578

to pull downa1586

prosternate1593

shake1594

to lay along1598

unsinew1598

languefy1607

enerve1613

pulla1616

dispirit1647

imbecilitate1647

unstring1700

to run down1733

sap1755

reduce1767

prostrate1780

shatter1785

undermine1812

imbecile1829

disinvigorate1844

devitalize1849

wreck1850

atrophy1865

crumple1892

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

anitherOE

wanzelOE

lessc1225

slakea1300

littenc1300

aslakec1314

adminisha1325

allayc1330

settle1338

low1340

minisha1382

reprovea1382

abatea1398

rebatea1398

subtlea1398

alaskia1400

forlyten?a1400

imminish14..

lessenc1410

diminish1417

repress?a1425

assuagec1430

scarcec1440

small1440

underslakec1440

alessa1450

debate?c1450

batec1460

decreasec1470

appetisse1474

alow1494

mince1499

perswage?1504

remita1513

inless?1521

attenuate1530

weaken1530

defray1532

mitigate1532

minorate1534

narrow?1548

diminuec1550

extenuate1555

amain1578

exolve1578

base1581

dejecta1586

amoinder1588

faint1598

qualify1604

contract1605

to pull down1607

shrivel1609

to take down1610

disaugment1611

impoverish1611

shrink1628

decoct1629

persway1631

unflame1635

straiten1645

depress1647

reduce1649

detract1654

minuate1657

alloy1661

lower?1662

sinka1684

retreat1690

nip1785

to drive down1840

minify1866

to knock down1867

to damp down1869

scale1887

mute1891

clip1938

to roll back1942

to cut back1943

downscale1945

downrate1958

slim1963

downshift1972

society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of

fall1564

embase1577

to pull down1607

impoverish1611

depreciate1656

to let down1870

slip1961

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > be disappointed [verb (intransitive)] > let down

to pull down1636

to pull the rug (out) from under1928

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1035 O Fortune..þou sparest no degre, For..Miȝti kynges..þou canst pulle doun!

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 45 When goddes seruantes ar besy..in hys seruyce; they [sc. bad felowes] with theyre vanyte or troubelousnes pulle downe theyre myndes.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxv. vi I did pull down my self, fasting for such.

1607 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 53/2 They haue two tons of sassafras, which if thrown on the market..will pull down the price for a long time.

1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iv. ii. sig. H3 If I hold your Cards, I shall pull downe the side, I am not good at the game.

1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 255 A disease..that will suddenly pull down thy Strength, and rase thy Beauty.

1743 R. Blair Grave 15 A Fit of common Sickness pulls thee down With greater Ease.

1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Mar. 600 Paper-money pulls down the value of gold.

1890 Spectator 23 Aug. 238/2 To pull down the average.

1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 30 Jan. (1994) III. 537 I think I am begginning [sic] to get a little tired—I got pulled down by a cold.

1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xiii. 127 Looking after the children and coping with Charlotte, the maid, whom Louisa could not abide, soon pulled her down.

2000 Fresno (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 7 Dec. d8 (caption) [She] didn't let a winless Mountain West Conference record pull her or her team down.

2. transitive. To demolish, destroy, lay in ruins (a building, structure, etc.). Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin

spillc950

fellOE

to cast downc1230

destroy1297

to turn up?c1335

to throw down1340

to ding downc1380

to break downa1382

subverta1382

underturn1382

to take downc1384

falla1400

to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400

voida1400

brittenc1400

to burst downc1440

to pull downc1450

pluck1481

tumble1487

wreck1510

defacea1513

confound1523

raze1523

arase1530

to beat downc1540

ruinate1548

demolish1560

plane1562

to shovel down1563

race?1567

ruin1585

rape1597

unwall1598

to bluster down16..

raise1603

level1614

debolish1615

unbuilda1616

to make smooth work of1616

slight1640

to knock down1776

squabash1822

collapse1883

to turn over1897

mash1924

rubble1945

to take apart1978

c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 319 (MED) Þe prowde paleys dide he pulle doun to þe erthe.

?1459 Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 90 John Paston shulde doo poule doun the said mansion and euery stone and stikke therof.

1513 in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 291 (note) Saynd hye wold polle don the tyllys of my hos.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Luke xii. 18 I wil pul downe my barnes, and buylde greater.

1613 J. Rovenzon Treat. Metallica sig. D3 The furnace may bee pulled downe, and a new fire-stone or hearth put in.

1677 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1895) VIII. 16 Such as haue set vp fences in ye Common..the Councell shall cause them to be pulled downe.

1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 294 This Day they began to pull down the Printing House by the Theater.

1774 Exact Hist. Battle of Floddon cxliv. 35 Where piles be pulled down apace.

1847 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War (1885) vi. 332 We were of course obliged to go to work and pull down gates, doors, windows, door-sills, etc.

1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 Oct. 498/3 Make a good woman a partner in crime, and you pull down the very foundations of society.

1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 78/2 Desirous of pulling the house down and building a new one on its site.

1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie vi. 99 They were going to pull it down and build a block of flats.

1976 Economist (Nexis) 6 Nov. 18 [He] is in the frustrating position of having enough strength..to pull down the whole ancient edifice of Christian Democratic power.

1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. 5/2 The ceilings were bellying out so we pulled them down and exposed a huge vaulted timber roof.

3. transitive. Of a pack of hounds, etc.: to seize and bring to the ground; to overcome (a hunted animal).

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > bring to ground

to pull downc1450

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 229 (MED) Þai lete hym [sc. a dog] se ane olyfante, and he chasid so þat he was werie; and at þe laste he pullid hym down and killid hym.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. f. 72^v Your white Greihounde, that pulled down the Stagge last day.

1600 R. Whyte in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth III. 91 Hir Grace..sawe sixteen buckes (all having fayre lawe) pulled downe with greyhoundes, in a laund.

1624 T. Gataker Christian Constancy 17 They ply the Deere withall till he be heated and blowen, and then clap they on their great Buck-hounds that may pull him downe and plucke out his throat.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 76. ⁋1 The last Stag that was pull'd down.

1776 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 4 2093 Their Dog happened to escape from them, and run into the Paddock and pulled down the Deer against their will.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. ii. 26 Two trusty dogs, large and strong enough, I think, to pull down a stag.

1886 H. Smart Outsider I. i. 1 You weren't within half a field of the fair unknown when they pulled the fox down.

1903 J. London Call of Wild vii. 225 The whole pack..crowded together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey.

1928 Times 31 Oct. 6/7 Finding their first fox at Sir William Jaffray's Skilts Coverts, hounds pulled him down after a good 30 minutes' covert hunting.

2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 14 Mar. 15 It is not that uncommon for foxes to..hunt in groups and pull down and kill adult sheep.

4. transitive. To overthrow (a government or system of government), esp. by force; to depose or dethrone (a ruler).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign > violently

to pull down1625

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow

upturna1340

overturna1382

subvert1474

invert1548

overthrow1567

wrake1570

revolve1609

to pull down1625

overset1679

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxix. 181 When the Lacedemonians, and Athenians, made Warres, to set vp or pull downe Democracies, and Oligarchies.

1682 S. Pordage Azaria & Hushai 33 Baal would but rob some Jewels from your Crown, But these would Monarchy it self pull down.

1702 Modest Def. Governm. 7 That Generous Design of breaking the Fetters of Europe, by pulling down the French Monarchy.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. ix. 148 Success to the Queen of Hungary, and pulling down the French King, were the general Toasts from the Table.

1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France i. 67 An opinion that he has a right, at his will, to pull down the Government by which I am protected.

1815 J. Cottle Messiah iv. 52 He..Shall..Pull down the Lawful King, th' Usurper raise.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 442 One at least of the Apostles appears to have lived to see four Emperors pulled down in little more than a year.

1957 H. Zink U.S. in Germany xii. 169 The fanaticism of the Nazis..was such that a devilish plan was devised to pull down the government from top to bottom as the Allies advanced.

1996 India Today 30 June 60/1 The compulsions of the Left are not to pull the Government down but to wield its ideological influence within the halls of power.

5. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To earn (money, esp. a wage or salary). Also more generally: to achieve, obtain.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > earn

earneOE

fangOE

i-earnOE

winc1175

getc1300

betravail1393

to knock out1873

to pull downa1902

to knock down1929

pull1937

a1902 F. Norris Vandover & the Brute (1914) xviii. 573 I pulled down my twenty dollars and findings!

1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium ii. 37 Emma McChesney..pulled down something over thirty-two hundred a year selling Featherloom Petticoats.

1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise v. 78 ‘So you have become one of the world's workers.’.. ‘Yes; I'm pulling down four solid quid a week.’

1985 T. O'Brien Nucl. Age iii. 34 At school I pulled down solid grades.

2002 Time 5 Aug. 67/1 The..telecommunications analyst was pulling down $20 million a year.

2003 K. Sampson Freshers 58 There's no way the parents are going to lend a hand if I don't pull down a first, actually?

6. transitive. Computing. To use a mouse or the keyboard to cause (a list of menu options) to display beneath a selected heading or icon. Cf. pull-down adj. 2.

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1984 InfoWorld 13 Feb. 22/2 By positioning the mouse's arrow on top of a word on the [menu] bar, you can pull down a menu of choices related to that word.

1993 Macworld Dec. 31/1 (advt.) This powerful tool lets you handle much of your work without ever pulling down a menu.

2000 T. White in N. Blincoe & M. Thorne All Hail New Puritans 155 He pulls down the file menu and clicks on ‘Print’.

单词	to pull down
释义	> as lemmas to pull down to pull down 1. transitive. To bring low; to humble, humiliate; to weaken, enfeeble, deplete; to lower the spirits of, to depress. Cf. pluck v. 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak fellOE wastec1230 faintc1386 endull1395 resolvea1398 afaintc1400 defeat?c1400 dissolvec1400 weakc1400 craze1476 feeblish1477 debilite1483 overfeeble1495 plucka1529 to bring low1530 debilitate1541 acraze1549 decaya1554 infirma1555 weaken1569 effeeble1571 enervate1572 enfeeble1576 slay1578 to pull downa1586 prosternate1593 shake1594 to lay along1598 unsinew1598 languefy1607 enerve1613 pulla1616 dispirit1647 imbecilitate1647 unstring1700 to run down1733 sap1755 reduce1767 prostrate1780 shatter1785 undermine1812 imbecile1829 disinvigorate1844 devitalize1849 wreck1850 atrophy1865 crumple1892 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of fall1564 embase1577 to pull down1607 impoverish1611 depreciate1656 to let down1870 slip1961 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > be disappointed [verb (intransitive)] > let down to pull down1636 to pull the rug (out) from under1928 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1035 O Fortune..þou sparest no degre, For..Miȝti kynges..þou canst pulle doun! 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 45 When goddes seruantes ar besy..in hys seruyce; they [sc. bad felowes] with theyre vanyte or troubelousnes pulle downe theyre myndes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxv. vi I did pull down my self, fasting for such. 1607 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 53/2 They haue two tons of sassafras, which if thrown on the market..will pull down the price for a long time. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iv. ii. sig. H3 If I hold your Cards, I shall pull downe the side, I am not good at the game. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 255 A disease..that will suddenly pull down thy Strength, and rase thy Beauty. 1743 R. Blair Grave 15 A Fit of common Sickness pulls thee down With greater Ease. 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Mar. 600 Paper-money pulls down the value of gold. 1890 Spectator 23 Aug. 238/2 To pull down the average. 1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 30 Jan. (1994) III. 537 I think I am begginning [sic] to get a little tired—I got pulled down by a cold. 1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xiii. 127 Looking after the children and coping with Charlotte, the maid, whom Louisa could not abide, soon pulled her down. 2000 Fresno (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 7 Dec. d8 (caption) [She] didn't let a winless Mountain West Conference record pull her or her team down. 2. transitive. To demolish, destroy, lay in ruins (a building, structure, etc.). Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin spillc950 fellOE to cast downc1230 destroy1297 to turn up?c1335 to throw down1340 to ding downc1380 to break downa1382 subverta1382 underturn1382 to take downc1384 falla1400 to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400 voida1400 brittenc1400 to burst downc1440 to pull downc1450 pluck1481 tumble1487 wreck1510 defacea1513 confound1523 raze1523 arase1530 to beat downc1540 ruinate1548 demolish1560 plane1562 to shovel down1563 race?1567 ruin1585 rape1597 unwall1598 to bluster down16.. raise1603 level1614 debolish1615 unbuilda1616 to make smooth work of1616 slight1640 to knock down1776 squabash1822 collapse1883 to turn over1897 mash1924 rubble1945 to take apart1978 c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 319 (MED) Þe prowde paleys dide he pulle doun to þe erthe. ?1459 Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 90 John Paston shulde doo poule doun the said mansion and euery stone and stikke therof. 1513 in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 291 (note) Saynd hye wold polle don the tyllys of my hos. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Luke xii. 18 I wil pul downe my barnes, and buylde greater. 1613 J. Rovenzon Treat. Metallica sig. D3 The furnace may bee pulled downe, and a new fire-stone or hearth put in. 1677 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1895) VIII. 16 Such as haue set vp fences in ye Common..the Councell shall cause them to be pulled downe. 1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 294 This Day they began to pull down the Printing House by the Theater. 1774 Exact Hist. Battle of Floddon cxliv. 35 Where piles be pulled down apace. 1847 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War (1885) vi. 332 We were of course obliged to go to work and pull down gates, doors, windows, door-sills, etc. 1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 Oct. 498/3 Make a good woman a partner in crime, and you pull down the very foundations of society. 1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 78/2 Desirous of pulling the house down and building a new one on its site. 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie vi. 99 They were going to pull it down and build a block of flats. 1976 Economist (Nexis) 6 Nov. 18 [He] is in the frustrating position of having enough strength..to pull down the whole ancient edifice of Christian Democratic power. 1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. 5/2 The ceilings were bellying out so we pulled them down and exposed a huge vaulted timber roof. 3. transitive. Of a pack of hounds, etc.: to seize and bring to the ground; to overcome (a hunted animal). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > bring to ground to pull downc1450 c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 229 (MED) Þai lete hym [sc. a dog] se ane olyfante, and he chasid so þat he was werie; and at þe laste he pullid hym down and killid hym. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. f. 72^v Your white Greihounde, that pulled down the Stagge last day. 1600 R. Whyte in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth III. 91 Hir Grace..sawe sixteen buckes (all having fayre lawe) pulled downe with greyhoundes, in a laund. 1624 T. Gataker Christian Constancy 17 They ply the Deere withall till he be heated and blowen, and then clap they on their great Buck-hounds that may pull him downe and plucke out his throat. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 76. ⁋1 The last Stag that was pull'd down. 1776 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 4 2093 Their Dog happened to escape from them, and run into the Paddock and pulled down the Deer against their will. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. ii. 26 Two trusty dogs, large and strong enough, I think, to pull down a stag. 1886 H. Smart Outsider I. i. 1 You weren't within half a field of the fair unknown when they pulled the fox down. 1903 J. London Call of Wild vii. 225 The whole pack..crowded together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey. 1928 Times 31 Oct. 6/7 Finding their first fox at Sir William Jaffray's Skilts Coverts, hounds pulled him down after a good 30 minutes' covert hunting. 2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 14 Mar. 15 It is not that uncommon for foxes to..hunt in groups and pull down and kill adult sheep. 4. transitive. To overthrow (a government or system of government), esp. by force; to depose or dethrone (a ruler). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign > violently to pull down1625 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow upturna1340 overturna1382 subvert1474 invert1548 overthrow1567 wrake1570 revolve1609 to pull down1625 overset1679 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxix. 181 When the Lacedemonians, and Athenians, made Warres, to set vp or pull downe Democracies, and Oligarchies. 1682 S. Pordage Azaria & Hushai 33 Baal would but rob some Jewels from your Crown, But these would Monarchy it self pull down. 1702 Modest Def. Governm. 7 That Generous Design of breaking the Fetters of Europe, by pulling down the French Monarchy. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator II. ix. 148 Success to the Queen of Hungary, and pulling down the French King, were the general Toasts from the Table. 1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France i. 67 An opinion that he has a right, at his will, to pull down the Government by which I am protected. 1815 J. Cottle Messiah iv. 52 He..Shall..Pull down the Lawful King, th' Usurper raise. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 442 One at least of the Apostles appears to have lived to see four Emperors pulled down in little more than a year. 1957 H. Zink U.S. in Germany xii. 169 The fanaticism of the Nazis..was such that a devilish plan was devised to pull down the government from top to bottom as the Allies advanced. 1996 India Today 30 June 60/1 The compulsions of the Left are not to pull the Government down but to wield its ideological influence within the halls of power. 5. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To earn (money, esp. a wage or salary). Also more generally: to achieve, obtain. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > earn earneOE fangOE i-earnOE winc1175 getc1300 betravail1393 to knock out1873 to pull downa1902 to knock down1929 pull1937 a1902 F. Norris Vandover & the Brute (1914) xviii. 573 I pulled down my twenty dollars and findings! 1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium ii. 37 Emma McChesney..pulled down something over thirty-two hundred a year selling Featherloom Petticoats. 1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise v. 78 ‘So you have become one of the world's workers.’.. ‘Yes; I'm pulling down four solid quid a week.’ 1985 T. O'Brien Nucl. Age iii. 34 At school I pulled down solid grades. 2002 Time 5 Aug. 67/1 The..telecommunications analyst was pulling down $20 million a year. 2003 K. Sampson Freshers 58 There's no way the parents are going to lend a hand if I don't pull down a first, actually? 6. transitive. Computing. To use a mouse or the keyboard to cause (a list of menu options) to display beneath a selected heading or icon. Cf. pull-down adj. 2. ΚΠ 1984 InfoWorld 13 Feb. 22/2 By positioning the mouse's arrow on top of a word on the [menu] bar, you can pull down a menu of choices related to that word. 1993 Macworld Dec. 31/1 (advt.) This powerful tool lets you handle much of your work without ever pulling down a menu. 2000 T. White in N. Blincoe & M. Thorne All Hail New Puritans 155 He pulls down the file menu and clicks on ‘Print’. extracted from pullv. < as lemmas
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