| steal | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. bargain, buy, steal | an advantageous purchase.; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" |
| ~ purchase | something acquired by purchase. |
| ~ song | a very small sum.; "he bought it for a song" |
| ~ travel bargain | a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes). |
| n. (act) | 2. steal | a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch). |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (possession) | 3. steal | take without the owner's consent.; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" |
| ~ take | take by force.; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" |
| ~ cabbage, filch, pilfer, purloin, snarf, abstract, nobble, swipe, pinch, sneak, hook, lift | make off with belongings of others. |
| ~ rustle, lift | take illegally.; "rustle cattle" |
| ~ shoplift | steal in a store. |
| ~ pirate | copy illegally; of published material. |
| ~ plagiarise, plagiarize, lift | take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property. |
| ~ pocket, bag | take unlawfully. |
| ~ defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate | appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" |
| ~ rob | take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.; "The burglars robbed him of all his money" |
| ~ cop, glom, snitch, thieve, knock off, hook | take by theft.; "Someone snitched my wallet!" |
| ~ walk off | take without permission.; "he walked off with my wife!"; "The thief walked off with my gold watch" |
| ~ pluck, hustle, roll | sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity. |
| ~ loot, plunder | take illegally; of intellectual property.; "This writer plundered from famous authors" |
| ~ burglarise, burglarize, burgle, heist | commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling. |
| v. (motion) | 4. slip, steal | move stealthily.; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (competition) | 5. steal | steal a base. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win, gain, advance | obtain advantages, such as points, etc..; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference" |
| take | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.; "the average return was about 5%" |
| ~ income | the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time. |
| ~ economic rent, rent | the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. |
| ~ payback | financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment). |
| n. (act) | 2. take | the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption. |
| ~ cinematography, filming, motion-picture photography | the act of making a film. |
| ~ retake | a shot or scene that is photographed again. |
| v. (social) | 3. take | carry out.; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (possession) | 4. occupy, take, use up | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| ~ deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume, eat | use up (resources or materials).; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| ~ be | spend or use time.; "I may be an hour" |
| v. (motion) | 5. conduct, direct, guide, lead, take | take somebody somewhere.; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" |
| ~ beacon | guide with a beacon. |
| ~ hand | guide or conduct or usher somewhere.; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi" |
| ~ misguide, mislead, lead astray, misdirect | lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions.; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" |
| ~ usher, show | take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums.; "The usher showed us to our seats" |
| v. (contact) | 6. get hold of, take | get into one's hands, take physically.; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please" |
| ~ clutch, prehend, seize | take hold of; grab.; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals" |
| ~ seize | take or capture by force.; "The terrorists seized the politicians"; "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages" |
| v. (change) | 7. acquire, adopt, assume, take, take on | take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect.; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ re-assume | take on again, as after a time lapse.; "He re-assumed his old behavior" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. read, take | interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" |
| ~ read | to hear and understand.; "I read you loud and clear!" |
| ~ construe, interpret, see | make sense of; assign a meaning to.; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" |
| ~ misinterpret, misread | interpret wrongly.; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" |
| ~ read | interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior.; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball" |
| v. (motion) | 9. bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| ~ fetch, bring, get, convey | go or come after and bring or take back.; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" |
| ~ fetch | take away or remove.; "The devil will fetch you!" |
| ~ bring | be accompanied by.; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?" |
| ~ carry, transport | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" |
| ~ come, come up | move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" |
| ~ transit | cause or enable to pass through.; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day" |
| ~ ferry | transport from one place to another. |
| ~ bring back, take back, return | bring back to the point of departure. |
| ~ tube | convey in a tube.; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail" |
| ~ whisk | move somewhere quickly.; "The President was whisked away in his limo" |
| ~ channel, transmit, carry, impart, conduct, convey | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" |
| ~ land | bring ashore.; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| v. (possession) | 10. take | take into one's possession.; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
| ~ adopt, take in | take into one's family.; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua" |
| ~ take away | take from a person or place.; "We took the abused child away from its parents" |
| ~ repossess, take back | regain possession of something. |
| ~ collect, take in | call for and obtain payment of.; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" |
| ~ confiscate, impound, sequester, seize, attach | take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" |
| ~ sequester | requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.; "the estate was sequestered" |
| ~ pocket | put in one's pocket.; "He pocketed the change" |
| ~ assume, take over, accept, bear | take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility" |
| ~ snaffle, snap up, grab | get hold of or seize quickly and easily.; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" |
| ~ call back, withdraw, call in, recall | cause to be returned.; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" |
| ~ deprive, divest, strip | take away possessions from someone.; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" |
| ~ unburden | free or relieve (someone) of a burden. |
| v. (motion) | 11. take | travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route.; "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| v. (cognition) | 12. choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| ~ empanel, impanel, panel | select from a list.; "empanel prospective jurors" |
| ~ anoint | choose by or as if by divine intervention.; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group" |
| ~ field | select (a team or individual player) for a game.; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" |
| ~ sieve, sift | distinguish and separate out.; "sift through the job candidates" |
| ~ draw | select or take in from a given group or region.; "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population" |
| ~ dial | choose by means of a dial.; "dial a telephone number" |
| ~ plump, go | give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.; "I plumped for the losing candidates" |
| ~ pick | select carefully from a group.; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully" |
| ~ elect | choose.; "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically" |
| ~ excerpt, extract, take out | take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy. |
| ~ cull out, winnow | select desirable parts from a group or list.; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants" |
| ~ cream off, skim off | pick the best. |
| ~ pick over, sieve out | separate or remove.; "The customer picked over the selection" |
| ~ set apart, assign, specify | select something or someone for a specific purpose.; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" |
| ~ single out | select from a group.; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance" |
| ~ decide, make up one's mind, determine | reach, make, or come to a decision about something.; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" |
| ~ think of | choose in one's mind.; "Think of any integer between 1 and 25" |
| ~ specify, fix, limit, set, determine, define | decide upon or fix definitely.; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" |
| ~ adopt, espouse, follow | choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals" |
| ~ screen out, sieve, sort, screen | examine in order to test suitability.; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" |
| ~ vote in | elect in a voting process.; "They voted in Clinton" |
| ~ elect | select by a vote for an office or membership.; "We elected him chairman of the board" |
| ~ nominate, propose | put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position.; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" |
| ~ vote | express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote.; "He voted for the motion"; "None of the Democrats voted last night" |
| v. (possession) | 13. accept, have, take | receive willingly something given or offered.; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" |
| ~ receive, have | get something; come into possession of.; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| ~ admit, take on, accept, take | admit into a group or community.; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" |
| ~ welcome | accept gladly.; "I welcome your proposals" |
| ~ honor, honour | accept as pay.; "we honor checks and drafts" |
| ~ adopt, borrow, take up, take over | take up and practice as one's own. |
| v. (social) | 14. fill, occupy, take | assume, as of positions or roles.; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" |
| ~ assume, take up, strike, take | occupy or take on.; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
| v. (cognition) | 15. consider, deal, look at, take | take into consideration for exemplifying purposes.; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" |
| ~ contemplate | consider as a possibility.; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job" |
| ~ trifle, dally, play | consider not very seriously.; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" |
| ~ think about | have on one's mind, think about actively.; "I'm thinking about my friends abroad"; "She always thinks about her children first" |
| ~ abstract | consider apart from a particular case or instance.; "Let's abstract away from this particular example" |
| ~ warm to | become excited about.; "He warmed to the idea of a trip to Antarctica" |
| v. (stative) | 16. ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take | require as useful, just, or proper.; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German" |
| ~ draw | require a specified depth for floating.; "This boat draws 70 inches" |
| ~ cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.; "This mistake cost him his job" |
| ~ cry for, cry out for | need badly or desperately.; "This question cries out for an answer" |
| ~ compel | necessitate or exact.; "the water shortage compels conservation" |
| v. (perception) | 17. take | experience or feel or submit to.; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" |
| ~ submit, take | accept or undergo, often unwillingly.; "We took a pay cut" |
| ~ experience, have, receive, get | go through (mental or physical states or experiences).; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" |
| v. (communication) | 18. film, shoot, take | make a film or photograph of something.; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" |
| ~ film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show, flick, picture | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" |
| ~ record, enter, put down | make a record of; set down in permanent form. |
| ~ photograph, shoot, snap | record on photographic film.; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" |
| ~ reshoot | shoot again.; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times" |
| v. (change) | 19. remove, take, take away, withdraw | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ depilate, epilate | remove body hair.; "epilate her legs" |
| ~ harvest | remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation.; "The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals" |
| ~ tip | remove the tip from.; "tip artichokes" |
| ~ stem | remove the stem from.; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed" |
| ~ extirpate | surgically remove (an organ). |
| ~ enucleate | remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover. |
| ~ exenterate | remove the contents of (an organ). |
| ~ enucleate | remove the nucleus from (a cell). |
| ~ decorticate | remove the cortex of (an organ). |
| ~ bail | remove (water) from a vessel with a container. |
| ~ undress, disinvest, divest, strip | remove (someone's or one's own) clothes.; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments" |
| ~ ablate | remove an organ or bodily structure. |
| ~ clean, pick | remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits.; "Clean the turkey" |
| ~ clean | remove shells or husks from.; "clean grain before milling it" |
| ~ winnow | blow away or off with a current of air.; "winnow chaff" |
| ~ pick | remove in small bits.; "pick meat from a bone" |
| ~ clear up, clear | free (the throat) by making a rasping sound.; "Clear the throat" |
| ~ muck | remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine. |
| ~ lift | remove from a surface.; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" |
| ~ lift | take off or away by decreasing.; "lift the pressure" |
| ~ lift | remove from a seedbed or from a nursery.; "lift the tulip bulbs" |
| ~ tear away, tear off | rip off violently and forcefully.; "The passing bus tore off her side mirror" |
| ~ take off | take away or remove.; "Take that weight off me!" |
| ~ take away, take out | take out or remove.; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" |
| ~ stone, pit | remove the pits from.; "pit plums and cherries" |
| ~ seed | remove the seeds from.; "seed grapes" |
| ~ unhinge | remove the hinges from.; "unhinge the door" |
| ~ shuck | remove the shucks from.; "shuck corn" |
| ~ hull | remove the hulls from.; "hull the berries" |
| ~ crumb | remove crumbs from.; "crumb the table" |
| ~ chip away, chip away at | remove or withdraw gradually:.; "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life" |
| ~ burl | remove the burls from cloth. |
| ~ knock out | destroy or break forcefully.; "The windows were knocked out" |
| ~ scavenge, clean | remove unwanted substances from. |
| ~ hypophysectomise, hypophysectomize | remove the pituitary glands. |
| ~ degas | remove gas from. |
| ~ husk, shell | remove the husks from.; "husk corn" |
| ~ bur, burr | remove the burrs from. |
| ~ clear away, clear off | remove from sight. |
| ~ flick | remove with a flick (of the hand). |
| ~ dismantle, strip | take off or remove.; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" |
| ~ strip | remove a constituent from a liquid. |
| ~ clear | remove.; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road" |
| ~ defang | remove the fangs from.; "defang the poisonous snake" |
| ~ debone, bone | remove the bones from.; "bone the turkey before roasting it" |
| ~ disembowel, eviscerate, draw | remove the entrails of.; "draw a chicken" |
| ~ shell | remove from its shell or outer covering.; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels" |
| ~ shuck | remove from the shell.; "shuck oysters" |
| ~ detusk, tusk | remove the tusks of animals.; "tusk an elephant" |
| ~ dehorn | prevent the growth of horns of certain animals. |
| ~ scalp | remove the scalp of.; "The enemies were scalped" |
| ~ weed | clear of weeds.; "weed the garden" |
| ~ condense | remove water from.; "condense the milk" |
| ~ bale out, bail out | remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side. |
| ~ leach, strip | remove substances from by a percolating liquid.; "leach the soil" |
| ~ decalcify | remove calcium or lime from.; "decalcify the rock" |
| ~ detoxicate, detoxify | remove poison from.; "detoxify the soil" |
| ~ de-ionate | remove ions from.; "ionate thyroxine" |
| ~ de-iodinate | remove iodine from.; "de-iodinate the thyroxine" |
| ~ decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke | remove carbon from (an engine). |
| ~ delouse | free of lice.; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps" |
| ~ ream | remove by making a hole or by boring.; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment" |
| ~ brush | remove with or as if with a brush.; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections" |
| ~ wash off, wash away, wash out, wash | remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent.; "he washed the dirt from his coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the stains" |
| ~ desorb | remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed.; "the substance was desorbed" |
| ~ pull | take away.; "pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf" |
| ~ demineralise, demineralize | remove the minerals or salts from.; "demineralize water" |
| ~ eliminate | remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations. |
| ~ expectorate, clear out, drive out | clear out the chest and lungs.; "This drug expectorates quickly" |
| ~ carve out | remove from a larger whole.; "the new start-up company carved out a large chunk of the market within a year" |
| ~ defuse | remove the triggering device from. |
| ~ dredge | remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water. |
| ~ wear away, wear off | diminish, as by friction.; "Erosion wore away the surface" |
| ~ amputate, cut off | remove surgically.; "amputate limbs" |
| ~ eviscerate, resect | surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ. |
| ~ cream off, skim off, cream, skim | remove from the surface.; "skim cream from the surface of milk" |
| ~ strip | remove the surface from.; "strip wood" |
| ~ strip | strip the cured leaves from.; "strip tobacco" |
| ~ descale, scale | remove the scales from.; "scale fish" |
| ~ circumcise | cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys.; "During the bris, the baby boy is circumcised" |
| ~ undock | take (a ship) out of a dock.; "undock the ship" |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
| ~ hollow, excavate, dig | remove the inner part or the core of.; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" |
| ~ lift out, scoop, scoop up, scoop out, take up | take out or up with or as if with a scoop.; "scoop the sugar out of the container" |
| ~ extract, pull out, pull up, draw out, take out, pull | remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram" |
| ~ take out | remove something from a container or an enclosed space. |
| ~ unstring | remove the strings from.; "unstring my guitar" |
| ~ string | remove the stringy parts of.; "string beans" |
| ~ wipe away, wipe off | remove by wiping. |
| ~ bear away, bear off, carry away, take away, carry off | remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state.; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry" |
| ~ unveil | remove the cover from.; "unveil a painting" |
| ~ unpack, take out | remove from its packing.; "unpack the presents" |
| ~ disburden, unburden | take the burden off; remove the burden from.; "unburden the donkey" |
| ~ empty | remove.; "Empty the water" |
| ~ discharge | remove the charge from. |
| ~ offsaddle, unsaddle | remove the saddle from.; "They unsaddled their mounts" |
| ~ cast off, shed, throw off, shake off, throw away, throw, cast, drop | get rid of.; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" |
| ~ dislodge, free | remove or force out from a position.; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" |
| ~ clean | remove while making clean.; "Clean the spots off the rug" |
| ~ aspirate, suck out, draw out | remove as if by suction.; "aspirate the wound" |
| ~ delete, cancel | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| ~ lade, laden, ladle | remove with or as if with a ladle.; "ladle the water out of the bowl" |
| ~ spoon | scoop up or take up with a spoon.; "spoon the sauce over the roast" |
| ~ gut | remove the guts of.; "gut the sheep" |
| ~ head | remove the head of.; "head the fish" |
| ~ draw off, draw away, pull off | remove by drawing or pulling.; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese" |
| ~ clean, strip | remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" |
| ~ draw, take out | take liquid out of a container or well.; "She drew water from the barrel" |
| ~ pull out, draw, get out, pull, take out | bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim" |
| ~ leach | cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate. |
| ~ draw | cause to flow.; "The nurse drew blood" |
| ~ draw off, take out, withdraw, draw | remove (a commodity) from (a supply source).; "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" |
| v. (consumption) | 20. consume, have, ingest, take, take in | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ hit | consume to excess.; "hit the bottle" |
| ~ cannibalise, cannibalize | eat human flesh. |
| ~ habituate, use | take or consume (regularly or habitually).; "She uses drugs rarely" |
| ~ eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ drink, imbibe | take in liquids.; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" |
| ~ booze, drink, fuddle | consume alcohol.; "We were up drinking all night" |
| ~ partake, touch | consume.; "She didn't touch her food all night" |
| ~ eat, feed | take in food; used of animals only.; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
| ~ replete, sate, satiate, fill | fill to satisfaction.; "I am sated" |
| ~ sample, taste, try, try out | take a sample of.; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" |
| ~ suck in, sop up, take up, take in | take up as if with a sponge. |
| ~ smoke | inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes.; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" |
| ~ do drugs, drug | use recreational drugs. |
| ~ swallow, get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking.; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" |
| ~ sup | take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon. |
| v. (cognition) | 21. submit, take | accept or undergo, often unwillingly.; "We took a pay cut" |
| ~ test | undergo a test.; "She doesn't test well" |
| ~ undergo | pass through.; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" |
| ~ take | experience or feel or submit to.; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" |
| v. (possession) | 22. accept, take | make use of or accept for some purpose.; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" |
| ~ co-opt | take or assume for one's own use.; "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it" |
| v. (possession) | 23. take | take by force.; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" |
| ~ rescue | take forcibly from legal custody.; "rescue prisoners" |
| ~ scale | take by attacking with scaling ladders.; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort" |
| ~ extort | obtain through intimidation. |
| ~ take over, usurp, arrogate, seize, assume | seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession.; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" |
| ~ retake, recapture | take back by force, as after a battle.; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort" |
| ~ relieve | take by stealing.; "The thief relieved me of $100" |
| ~ steal | take without the owner's consent.; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" |
| ~ despoil, foray, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, loot, plunder, strip | steal goods; take as spoils.; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" |
| ~ sack, plunder | plunder (a town) after capture.; "the barbarians sacked Rome" |
| v. (motion) | 24. assume, strike, take, take up | occupy or take on.; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ fill, occupy, take | assume, as of positions or roles.; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" |
| v. (possession) | 25. accept, admit, take, take on | admit into a group or community.; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" |
| ~ profess | receive into a religious order or congregation. |
| ~ accept, take, have | receive willingly something given or offered.; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" |
| ~ let in, admit, include | allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" |
| v. (change) | 26. take | ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial.; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" |
| ~ incur, obtain, receive, get, find | receive a specified treatment (abstract).; "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" |
| v. (cognition) | 27. learn, read, study, take | be a student of a certain subject.; "She is reading for the bar exam" |
| ~ audit | attend academic courses without getting credit. |
| ~ train, prepare | undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid" |
| ~ practice, drill, practise, exercise | learn by repetition.; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales" |
| v. (communication) | 28. claim, exact, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take | require as useful, just, or proper.; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" |
| ~ necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take | require as useful, just, or proper.; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" |
| v. (motion) | 29. make, take | head into a specified direction.; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" |
| ~ head | to go or travel towards.; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" |
| v. (competition) | 30. aim, direct, take, take aim, train | point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" |
| ~ target, direct, aim, place, point | intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" |
| ~ draw a bead on | aim with a gun.; "The hunter drew a bead on the rabbit" |
| ~ hold | aim, point, or direct.; "Hold the fire extinguisher directly on the flames" |
| ~ turn | direct at someone.; "She turned a smile on me"; "They turned their flashlights on the car" |
| ~ swing | hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement.; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee" |
| ~ point, level, charge | direct into a position for use.; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" |
| ~ level | aim at.; "level criticism or charges at somebody" |
| ~ position | cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation. |
| ~ sight | take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device). |
| v. (change) | 31. take | be seized or affected in a specified way.; "take sick"; "be taken drunk" |
| ~ become, get, go | enter or assume a certain state or condition.; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" |
| v. (stative) | 32. carry, pack, take | have with oneself; have on one's person.; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| ~ carry | have or possess something abstract.; "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance" |
| v. (possession) | 33. charter, engage, hire, lease, rent, take | engage for service under a term of contract.; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" |
| ~ acquire, get | come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" |
| v. (possession) | 34. subscribe, subscribe to, take | receive or obtain regularly.; "We take the Times every day" |
| ~ buy, purchase | obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction.; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" |
| v. (possession) | 35. take | buy, select.; "I'll take a pound of that sausage" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ buy, purchase | obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction.; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" |
| v. (possession) | 36. take | to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort.; "take shelter from the storm" |
| v. (contact) | 37. have, take | have sex with; archaic use.; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" |
| ~ be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, lie with, make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, hump, jazz, bed, love, bang, make out, know | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| v. (communication) | 38. claim, take | lay claim to; as of an idea.; "She took credit for the whole idea" |
| ~ avow, swan, affirm, assert, aver, swear, verify | to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.; "Before God I swear I am innocent" |
| ~ arrogate, lay claim, claim | demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" |
| v. (stative) | 39. accept, take | be designed to hold or take.; "This surface will not take the dye" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 40. contain, hold, take | be capable of holding or containing.; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ contain, bear, carry, hold | contain or hold; have within.; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" |
| ~ accommodate, admit, hold | have room for; hold without crowding.; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" |
| v. (social) | 41. take | develop a habit.; "He took to visiting bars" |
| v. (motion) | 42. drive, take | proceed along in a vehicle.; "We drive the turnpike to work" |
| ~ driving | the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal. |
| ~ cross, cut across, cut through, get over, traverse, get across, pass over, track, cover | travel across or pass over.; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" |
| ~ motor, drive | travel or be transported in a vehicle.; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" |
| ~ drive | operate or control a vehicle.; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" |
| ~ drive | cause someone or something to move by driving.; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage" |
| v. (competition) | 43. take | obtain by winning.; "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize" |
| ~ win | be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" |
| v. (body) | 44. contract, get, take | be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" |
| ~ sicken, come down | get sick.; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" |
| ~ catch | contract.; "did you catch a cold?" |
| ~ catch | contract.; "did you catch a cold?" |
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