Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make (something) lower (especially of clothes). 2 (context transitive English) To demolish or destroy (a building etc.). 3 (context transitive English) To cause to fall to the floor
WordNet
v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down] [ant: raise]
cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" [syn: down, knock down, cut down, push down]
Usage examples of "pull down".
I can bring in enough rabbits to pull down this wall in four places.
If, on the contrary, you were to ask Priestley, who was guided by the principles of the empirical use of reason only and opposed to all transcendental speculation, what could have induced him to pull down two such pillars of religion as the freedom and immortality of our soul (for the hope of a future life is with him an expectation only of the miracle of a resuscitation), he, who was himself so pious and zealous a teacher of religion, could answer nothing but that he was concerned for reason, which must suffer if certain subjects are withdrawn from the laws of material nature, the only laws which we can accurately know and fix.
Its fall was due in great measure to the assistance rendered by some Portuguese, headed by Christovao de Figueiredo, who with their arquebusses picked off the defenders from the walls, and thus enabled the besiegers to approach close to the lines of fortification and pull down the stones of which they were formed.
Wolves pull down the slowest calves in a herd, and the cripples, and the elderly.
The Redemption cannot be for a political purpose--to pull down rulers and powers, and vacate their places merely that others may take and enjoy them.
He may as well attempt to pull down the solid walls of the Tower itself as shake Henry's resolution.
Having found out that some High Church Tories belonging to his own division intended to pull down, or burn a Presbyterian meeting-house in the town, he peremptorily forbade them, declaring he would punish any who disobeyed his orders.
It won't do us any good at all if you pull down the CO when it's supposed to be used for a cleaning cycle.
When the doctor arrived and began to pull down those frightful covers Walter Gilman was dead.