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Cat fold 525 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Take down & take out

What are you people doing? Look at him. He has the courage to fight Sutter for all of you. You can just stand there and watch him die. You have to do something! You can take him down! Sutter can't take all of you out. You need to do what's right!

Does "take him down" mean " knock him down" and "take all of you out" mean "kill all of you"?

  

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"take down" and "take out" both essentially mean defeat or destroy, possibly but not necessarily implying killing. cat fold 525 You can just stand there and watch him die. I wonder if this should say "You can't just stand there and watch him die".

  • "take down" and "take out" both essentially mean defeat or destroy, possibly but not necessarily implying killing.
  • cat fold 525 You can just stand there and watch him die.
  • I wonder if this should say "You can't just stand there and watch him die".
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"take down" and "take out" both essentially mean defeat or destroy, possibly but not necessarily implying killing.

cat fold 525You can just stand there and watch him die.

I wonder if this should say "You can't just stand there and watch him die".

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