take
/ˈteɪ̯k/ verb A1- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. · They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.· I'll take that plate off the table.
- To seize or capture. · take the guards prisoner· take prisoners
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game). · took ten catfish in one afternoon
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. · Billy took her pencil.· The County took his land by eminent domain.
- To exact. · take a toll· take revenge
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. · took the next two tricks· took Smith's rook
- To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). · took third place· took bribes
Plural take · He/she/it takes · Past took · Past participle taken · -ing form taking
Verb forms
- Base form
- take
- He/she/it
- takes
- Past
- took
- Past participle
- taken
- -ing form
- taking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- take across To go; to proceed.
- take after To resemble (a parent or ancestor) in appearance or habit.
- take apart To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- take away To remove something and put it in a different place.
- take back To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
- take down To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surfa...
- take in To receive.
- take off To remove.
- take on To acquire, bring in, or introduce.
- take out To remove.
- take over To assume control of something, such as a business or ent...
- take up To pick up.
From the library
Keep your money—keep it, I say;—one never has too much;—but, at the same time, my boy, I am as much obliged by your offer as if I took advantage of it.”
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also.
Other matches
- take An act of taking. B1
- take across To go
- take after To resemble
- take apart To dismantle something into its component pieces.
- take away To remove something and put it in a different p...
- take back To retract or withdraw
- take down To remove something from a wall or similar vert...
- take in To receive.
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