Read full poem →to their music of life. Death over there! Life over
here! Shake down Death and forget his commerce, his
~ purpose, his haunting presence in a great shaking orgy.
Dictionary Entry
To cause something to fall down by shaking it, or something it is attached to.
In a Sentence
“shake down apples from an apple tree.”
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Poetry examples for “shake down”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.