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TAKE AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Example:
This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Synonyms:
remove; take; take away; withdraw
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):
depilate; epilate (remove body hair)
harvest (remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation)
tip (remove the tip from)
stem (remove the stem from)
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)
disinvest; divest; strip; undress (remove (someone's or one's own) clothes)
ablate (remove an organ or bodily structure)
clean; pick (remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits)
clean (remove shells or husks from)
fan; winnow (blow away or off with a current of air)
pick (remove in small bits)
clear; clear up (free (the throat) by making a rasping sound)
muck (remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine)
lift (remove from a surface)
lift (take off or away by decreasing)
lift (remove from a seedbed or from a nursery)
rip off; tear away; tear off (remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully)
take off (take away or remove)
take away; take out (take out or remove)
pit; stone (remove the pits from)
seed (remove the seeds from)
unhinge (remove the hinges from)
shuck (remove the shucks from)
hull (remove the hulls from)
crumb (remove crumbs from)
chip away; chip away at (remove or withdraw gradually:)
burl (remove the burls from cloth)
knock out (destroy or break forcefully)
clean; scavenge (remove unwanted substances from)
hypophysectomise; hypophysectomize (remove the pituitary glands)
degas (remove gas from)
husk; shell (remove the husks from)
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 (remove a constituent from a liquid)
clear (remove)
defang (remove the fangs from)
bone; debone (remove the bones from)
disembowel; draw; eviscerate (remove the entrails of)
shell (remove from its shell or outer covering)
shuck (remove from the shell)
detusk; tusk (remove the tusks of animals)
dehorn (prevent the growth of horns of certain animals)
scalp (remove the scalp of)
weed (clear of weeds)
condense (remove water from)
bail out; bale out (remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side)
leach; strip (remove substances from by a percolating liquid)
decalcify (remove calcium or lime from)
detoxicate; detoxify (remove poison from)
de-ionate (remove ions from)
de-iodinate (remove iodine from)
decarbonise; decarbonize; decarburise; decarburize; decoke (remove carbon from (an engine))
delouse (free of lice)
ream (remove by making a hole or by boring)
brush (remove with or as if with a brush)
wash; wash away; wash off; wash out (remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent)
desorb (remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed)
pull (take away)
demineralise; demineralize (remove the minerals or salts from)
eliminate (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)
clear out; drive out; expectorate (clear out the chest and lungs)
carve out (remove from a larger whole)
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)
amputate; cut off (remove surgically)
eviscerate; resect (surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ)
cream; cream off; skim; skim off (remove from the surface)
strip (remove the surface from)
strip (strip the cured leaves from)
descale; scale (remove the scales from)
circumcise (cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys)
undock (take (a ship) out of a dock)
cut into; delve; dig; turn over (turn up, loosen, or remove earth)
dig; excavate; hollow (remove the inner part or the core of)
lift out; scoop; scoop out; scoop up; take up (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
take out (remove something from a container or an enclosed space)
unstring (remove the strings from)
string (remove the stringy parts of)
wipe away; wipe off (remove by wiping)
bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away (remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state)
unveil (remove the cover from)
take out; unpack (remove from its packing)
disburden; unburden (take the burden off; remove the burden from)
empty (remove)
discharge (remove the charge from)
offsaddle; unsaddle (remove the saddle from)
cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off (get rid of)
dislodge; free (remove or force out from a position)
clean (remove while making clean)
aspirate; draw out; suck out (remove by suction)
cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)
lade; laden; ladle (remove with or as if with a ladle)
spoon (scoop up or take up with a spoon)
gut (remove the guts of)
head (remove the head of)
draw away; draw off; pull off (remove by drawing or pulling)
clean; strip (remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely)
draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)
draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)
leach (cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate)
draw (cause to flow)
draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
They want to take away the doors
Sense 2
Meaning:
Take out or remove
Example:
take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
Synonyms:
take away; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):
bus (remove used dishes from the table in restaurants)
kill; obliterate; wipe out (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase)
cross off; cross out; mark; strike off; strike out (remove from a list)
delete; erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)
cart away; cart off; haul away; haul off (take away by means of a vehicle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take away a part from; diminish
Example:
His bad manners detract from his good character
Synonyms:
detract; take away
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):
bring down; cut; cut back; cut down; reduce; trim; trim back; trim down (cut down on; make a reduction in)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Get rid of something abstract
Example:
God takes away your sins
Synonyms:
remove; take away
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):
wash away (eliminate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
Example:
We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
Synonyms:
take away; take out
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
takeaway (prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
Example:
I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
Synonyms:
bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
"Take away" entails doing...:
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):
spirit away (carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously)
spirit away; spirit off (carry off mysteriously; as if by magic)
whisk away; whisk off (take away quickly and suddenly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Antonym:
bring (go or come after and bring or take back)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Take from a person or place
Example:
We took the abused child away from its parents
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):
take (take into one's possession)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel Hildesheim to clear and take away the box before sunrise.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it: to give you a new and clean one: to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Take away those letters, and throw them in the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same conclusion; for at any rate it would take away the pain of doubt.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I gave her a hug to take away the turn, or to give her another turn in the right direction, and then stood before her, looking at her in anxious inquiry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But, said Roland, I counsel you first to take away her magic wand, or we cannot escape if she pursues us.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She know it not; and it would overwhelm her and make despair just when we want all her hope, all her courage; when most we want all her great brain which is trained like man's brain, but is of sweet woman and have a special power which the Count give her, and which he may not take away altogether—though he think not so.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
