Meaning

3 senses
  1. (slang)A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.

    polizeiliche Festnahme, Verhaftung

  2. 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.

    Takedown (grappling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    Takedown, Zubodenbringen, zu Boden Bringen

  3. Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.

    zwangsweise Löschung, zwangsweise Entfernung

More definitions
  • (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position
  • a crushing remark

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom went for a single-leg takedown.

    CC0 · Tatoeba · shekitten · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Tom went for a double-leg takedown, but John sprawled.

    CC0 · Tatoeba · shekitten · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
a taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer:
martial arts:
enforced removal of material:

Origin

Deverbal from take down.

Deverbal from take down.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: takedowns
Singulartakedown
Pluraltakedowns

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
takedown — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto