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What does bring down mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bring down? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.
  2. (transitive) To reduce.
  3. (transitive) To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground. Usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
  4. (sports) To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
  5. (transitive) To make someone feel bad emotionally.
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The heaps, known as windrows, bring down the temperature of the garbage and prevent leaching too, Ms. Patel says.
His pronouncements cannot bring down governments, or send armies off to fight and die.
In past centuries, people used handwritten screeds and whispering campaigns to bring down their enemies.
When I felt at least halfway awake, I began the tricky climb up the mountain of hay bales to bring down fresh ones.
A loader hands him the gun to bring down the quarry which is then retrieved from the undergrowth by trained hounds.
Now, he's slashing capital expenditures and ransacking his portfolio for bits and pieces to sell, all to bring down debt.

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