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TAKE THE FIELD
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go on a campaign; go off to war
Synonyms:
campaign; take the field
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
"Take the field" entails doing...:
war (make or wage war)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take the field"):
crusade (go on a crusade; fight a holy war)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Go on the playing field, of a football team
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "take the field" is one way to...):
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
