Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To remove something and put it in a different place.
- v. To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
- v. To subtract or diminish something.
- v. To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- v. of a person To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- v. of a person To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- prep. minus.
WordNet 3.0
- v. take from a person or place
- v. take out or remove
- v. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- v. take away a part from; diminish.
- v. get rid of something abstract
- v. buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Examples
“So if you place a moratorium on drive-throughs, you will make fast food a whole lot less convenient and will take away the spontaneity that leaves you “supersized.””
“Epidurals usually take away almost all of the pain.”
“Du Cheval Blanc was almost enough to take away the taste of Eze Village, and of the fact that the British Open was being played and there was nowhere to watch it.”
“In no other business does the public “use” the product and then take away with them as Samuel Marx observed in his book Mayer and Thalberg merely the memory of it.”
““Mr. Rossetti says I should wear it a few times at home before I come to sit for him, to take away the stiffness of it,” said Jane.”
“James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion.”
“Of MICHAEL and the other spirits of Sunday he writes: "Their nature is to procure Gold, Gemmes, Carbuncles, Riches; to cause one to obtain favour and benevolence; to dissolve the enmities of men; to raise men to honors; to carry or take away infirmities.”
“Don't 'ee sing so loud, my good man,' said the landlady; 'in case any member of the Gover'ment should be passing, and take away my licends.”
“No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the reason of reform, and, one by one, take away every argument of the obstructives.”
“She would take away so many wonderful memories from her time at the Hale Kapa Kuiki that it was impossible to single out only one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘take away’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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phrasal verbs: AWAY
shy away, squirrel away, beaver away, whittle away, fritter away, fire away, blaze away, waste away, pass away, scare away, keep away, plug away and 3 more...
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Ways to find out
a good way, the hard way, one way, on the road to, a bad way, an easy way, another way, my way, edgeways, know way, thoroughfare, back way and 42 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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