bring to the ground

Those who played against him as teenagers still tell stories about bouncing off his 6-foot-3, 240-pound frame time and again, and eight years later, NFL players marvel at how difficult Henry is to bring to the ground.

Swain served as a change-of-pace battering ram who by the fourth quarter became that much more difficult to bring to the ground.

Fell, fel, v.t. to cause to fall: to bring to the ground: to cut down.—adj.

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.'

I hope I should be ready to stand by a falling cause if I had ever adopted it; but suffering for a falling cause, which one has done one's best to bring to the ground, is a kind of martyrdom for which I have no taste.