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| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get; help oneself to |
| Synonyms: | abduct, accept, acquire, arrest, attain, capture, catch, clasp, clutch, collar*, collect, earn, ensnare, entrap, grab, grasp, grip, handle, have, hold, obtain, overtake, pick up, pull in, reach, reap, receive, secure, seize, snag, snatch, strike, take in, win, carry off, carve out, gain possession, gather up, get hold of, haul in, lay hold of, prehend, take hold of |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | abduct, abstract, annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, filch*, liberate, lift*, misappropriate, nab*, nail*, nip*, pick up, pinch*, pluck, pocket*, preempt, pull in, purloin, rip off*, salvage, seize, sequester, snag, snare, snatch*, snitch*, swipe*, take in, accroach, carry off, haul in, run off with |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | buy; reserve |
| Synonyms: | book, borrow, charter, choose, cull, derive, draw, elect, engage, gain, get, hire, lease, mark, obtain, pick, prefer, procure, purchase, rent, select, decide on, opt for, optate, pay for, single out |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endure |
| Synonyms: | abide, accept, accommodate, bear, bear with, brave, brook, contain, go, go through, hack*, hang on*, hang tough*, hold, receive, stand, stand for, stomach, suffer, swallow, take it, tolerate, undergo, weather, welcome, withstand, give access, grin and bear it, hang in, let in, live with, put up with, ride out*, stick it out, submit to, take it lying down, take it on the chin |
| Antonyms: | avoid, discontinue, dodge, refuse, reject, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume |
| Synonyms: | devour, down, drink, eat, feed, feed on, imbibe, ingest, inhale, meal, swallow, partake of |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accept, adopt; use |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, admit, appropriate, assume, behave, bring, delight in, do, effect, enjoy, enter upon, execute, exercise, exert, experience, function, have, include, like, make, observe, operate, perform, play, practice, react, receive, relish, sense, serve, take in, treat, undertake, utilize, welcome, work, be aware of, deal with, give access, let in, luxuriate in, put in practice |
| Antonyms: | disallow, refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | understand |
| Synonyms: | accept, apprehend, assume, believe, catch, compass, comprehend, consider, deem, expect, experience, feel, follow, gather, grasp, hold, imagine, know, observe, perceive, presume, receive, reckon*, regard, see, sense, suppose, suspect, take in, think, be aware of, interpret as, look upon, see as, think of as |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, misconceive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | win; be successful |
| Synonyms: | beat, operate, prevail, succeed, triumph, work, be efficacious, do the trick, have effect |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry, transport; accompany |
| Synonyms: | attend, back, bear, bring, buck, cart, conduct, convey, convoy, drive, escort, ferry, fetch, guide, gun, haul, heel, jag, journey, lead, lug, move, pack, pilot, ride, schlepp*, shoulder, steer, tour, trek, truck, usher, go with, piggyback, tote |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, maintain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | captivate, enchant |
| Synonyms: | allure, attract, bewitch, charm, delight, draw, entertain, fascinate, magnetize, overwhelm, please, wile, become popular, win favor |
| Antonyms: | repulse, disenchant |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require |
| Synonyms: | ask, call for, crave, demand, necessitate, need |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | subtract |
| Synonyms: | deduct, discount, draw back, eliminate, knock off, remove, take off, take away, take out |
| Antonyms: | add |
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, deceive |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat*, bilk, con, cozen, defraud, do*, dupe, fiddle, flimflam*, gull, hoodwink, swindle, trick, pull a fast one, take for a ride |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contract, catch |
| Synonyms: | come down with*, derive, draw, get, be seized, sicken with, take sick with |
| Antonyms: | be immune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | communicable |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, transferable, transmittable |
| Main Entry: | taking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
| Synonyms: | adorable, agreeable, alluring, beautiful, bewitching, charming, comely, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fair, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, interesting, inviting, looker*, lovely, luring, magnetic, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, seductive, stunning, sweet, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, winning, winsome, beckoning, captivating, hunky*, mesmeric |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | taking |
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-nouns
taking; reception (taking in) [more]; deglutition (taking food) [more]; appropriation, prehension, prensation; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension; abreption, seizure, abduction, ablation; subtraction (subduction) [more]; abstraction, ademption; adrolepsy., dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction [more]., rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft[more]., resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery [more]., clutch, swoop, wrench; grip (retention) [more]; haul, take, catch; scramble., taker, captor.
-verbs
take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept., reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather (get) [more]; draw., appropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of., take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal [more]; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave., snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on., get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of., catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand., take from, take away from; disseize; deduct [more]; retrench (curtail) [more]; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling., oust (eject) [more]; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; unsurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb & c. (suck in) [more]; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech., retake, resume; recover [more].
-adjectives
taking; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic., bereft [more].
-adverbs
at one fell swoop.
-phrases
give an inch and take an ell.
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| Antonyms: | restitution |
| Main Entry: | attractive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appealing, drawing attention |
| Synonyms: | adorable, agreeable, alluring, beautiful, charming, comely, enchanting, engaging, fair, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, seductive, stunning, teasing, tempting, winning, winsome, beckoning, bewitching, captivating, enthralling, enticing, hunky, looker, luring, mesmeric, taking, tantalizing |
| Antonyms: | repellent, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | beautiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically attractive |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, wonderful, beauteous, bewitching, enticing, pulchritudinous, sightly, taking, well-formed |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, grotesque, hideous, homely, offensive, plain, repulsive, ugly, unattractive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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