take out
verb- To remove.
- To escort someone on a date. · Let me take you out for dinner.
- To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To obtain by application by a legal or other official process. · take out a loan; take out medical insurance; take out a membership; take out a patent
- To kill or destroy. · The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary.
- To stun, amaze; to kill. · These photos are taking me out.
- To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
From the library
“Take out my straw and scatter it over the little girl and the dog and the Lion,” he said to the Woodman, “and the bees cannot sting them.” This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion and held Toto in her arms, the straw covered them entirely.
I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
“Take out the horses quickly, and come up to me,” said Andrea to his groom.
Ade suggested, “I can take out the trash every Tuesday morning.”
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