take
take [-en, -s, -th, -ing, took] v
OE tacan, grasp, grip, seize, lay hold of.
- Pack; transport; convey; tote; carry with; bring along.
- Grab; pick up.
- Accept; receive.
- Remove; strip; snatch; extract.
- Dispatch; cause to die; transport away by death; bring through the veil of mortality.
- Speak; say; pronounce.
- Seize; capture.
- Confiscate; appropriate from an opponent in battle.
- Lift; raise; elevate; [fig.] cradle.
- Adopt; affirm; espouse; postulate; mentally claim.
- Use; apply; employ; implement; utilize.
- Eat; consume; partake of; break into bite-sized pieces.
- Diminish; deactivate; temporarily disrupt.
- Choose; select; include; admit; allow to enter in.
- Make; perform; attempt; essay; try.
- Assume; move into; transfer into; live within.
- Feed on; prey upon; [fig.] destroy; obliterate; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
- Expend; involve; require; delay; occur during; come to pass in.
- Understand; consider; think of.
- Achieve; accomplish.
- Secure; feel; sense; procure; obtain.
- Learn.
- Move; shake; stir; stimulate; [fig.] make music with.
- Handle; experience; bear; withstand; endure.
- Earn; deserve; merit.
- Have; receive; be in the attitude of.
- Clasp; hold.
- Ascertain; determine; calculate; specify; find out.
- Make time for.
- Gather; harvest.
- Alternate; exchange; go back and forth in.
- Believe; trust.
- Appear to have; become similar to.
- Inherit; go into.
- Catch; achieve; succeed in having.
- Translate; transfer; [fig.] call; beckon.
- Lead; guide; transport.
- Recant; abjure; forswear; retract; withdraw the error of.
- Require; necessitate; need.
- Go; wend; progress; pass on.
- Phrase: “Take a backward look”: remember; reminisce; glance again; resume a past pattern; review the past; return to a former scene.
- Phrase. “Take/took up”: gather; collect; assemble; pack; bundle to carry.
- Phrase. “Take care”: watch out; be reverent; have respect.
- Phrase. “Take away”: steal; pilfer; abscond with; deprive of.
- Phrase. “Take my chance with”: gamble on; decide to deal with; accept the possible outcome of.
- Phrase. “Take … by surprise”: startle; do the unexpected; act in a way not anticipated.