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ALL meanings of take out

take out
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  • verb with object take out to accept and act upon or comply with: to take advice; to take a dare. 1
  • verb with object take out to receive or accept (a person) into some relation: to take someone in marriage; to take new members once a year. 1
  • verb with object take out to receive, react, or respond to in a specified manner: Although she kept calm, she took his death hard. 1
  • verb with object take out to form in the mind; make: The company took the decision to shut down. 1
  • verb with object take out to receive as a payment or charge: He refused to take any money for the use of his car. 1
  • verb with object take out to gain for use by payment, lease, etc.: to take a box at the opera; to take a beach house for a month. 1
  • verb with object take out to secure regularly or periodically by payment: to take a magazine. 1
  • verb with object take out to get or obtain from a source; derive: The book takes its title from Dante. 1
  • verb with object take out to extract or quote: He took whole passages straight from Dickens. 1
  • verb with object take out to obtain or exact as compensation for some wrong: to take revenge. 1
  • verb with object take out to receive into the body or system, as by swallowing or inhaling: to take a pill; to take a breath of fresh air. 1
  • verb with object take out to have for one's benefit or use: to take a meal; to take a nap; to take a bath. 1
  • verb with object take out to use as a flavoring agent in a food or beverage: to take sugar in one's coffee. 1
  • verb with object take out to be subjected to; undergo: to take a heat treatment. 1
  • verb with object take out to endure or submit to with equanimity or without an appreciable weakening of one's resistance: to take a joke; unable to take punishment. 1
  • verb with object take out to enter into the enjoyment of (recreation, a holiday, etc.): to take a vacation. 1
  • verb with object take out to carry off without permission: to take something that belongs to another. 1
  • verb with object take out to remove: to take the pins out of one's hair. 1
  • verb with object take out to remove by death: The flood took many families. 1
  • verb with object take out to end (a life): She took her own life. 1
  • verb with object take out to subtract or deduct: If you take 2 from 5, that leaves 3. 1
  • verb with object take out to carry with one: Take your lunch with you. Are you taking an umbrella? 1
  • verb with object take out to convey in a means of transportation: We took them for a ride in the country. 1
  • verb with object take out (of a vehicle) to convey or transport: Will this bus take me across town? 1
  • verb with object take out (of a road, path, etc.) to serve as a means of conducting to or through some place or region: Fifth Avenue took us through the center of town. These stairs will take you up to the attic. 1
  • verb with object take out to bring about a change in the state or condition of: Her ambition and perseverance took her quickly to the top of her field. 1
  • verb with object take out to conduct or escort: to take someone out for dinner. 1
  • phrasal verb take out If you take something out, you remove it permanently from its place. 0
  • phrasal verb take out If you take out something such as a loan, a licence, or an insurance policy, you obtain it by fulfilling the conditions and paying the money that is necessary. 0
  • phrasal verb take out If you take someone out, they go somewhere such as a restaurant or theatre with you after you have invited them, and usually you pay for them. 0
  • phrasal verb take out If you take someone out, you kill them, or injure them so badly that they can no longer fight or do anything to harm you. 0
  • verb take out to extract or remove 0
  • verb take out to obtain or secure (a licence, patent, etc) from an authority 0
  • verb take out to go out with; escort 0
  • verb take out to bid a different suit from (one's partner) in order to rescue him from a difficult contract 0
  • verb take out to kill or destroy 0
  • verb take out to win, esp in sport 0
  • adjective take out of or designating a conventional informatory bid, asking one's partner to bid another suit 0
  • adjective take out sold for consumption away from the premises on which it is prepared 0
  • adjective take out preparing and selling food for consumption away from the premises 0
  • noun take out a shop or restaurant that sells such food 0
  • noun take out a meal bought at such a shop or restaurant 0
  • noun take out to remove; extract 0
  • noun take out to deduct 0
  • noun take out to obtain by application to the proper authority 0
  • noun take out to escort 0
  • noun take out to kill; specif., to assassinate 0
  • noun take out to bid higher than (one's partner) but in a different suit 0
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