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Take out
noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 Nonstandard spelling of takeout. alt-of, nonstandard
Verb
- 1 To remove.
"Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen."
- 2 take out or remove wordnet
- 3 To escort someone on a date.
"Let me take you out for dinner."
- 4 prevent from being included or considered or accepted wordnet
- 5 To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate. idiomatic
"I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out."
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- 6 take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy wordnet
- 7 To obtain by application by a legal or other official process. transitive
"take out a loan; take out medical insurance; take out a membership; take out a patent"
- 8 buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food wordnet
- 9 To kill or destroy. idiomatic, slang
"The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary."
- 10 remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense wordnet
- 11 To stun, amaze; to kill. idiomatic, slang
"These photos are taking me out."
- 12 remove something from a container or an enclosed space wordnet
- 13 To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc. colloquial
- 14 remove from its packing wordnet
- 15 take liquid out of a container or well wordnet
- 16 bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover wordnet
- 17 obtain by legal or official process wordnet
- 18 remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) wordnet
- 19 purchase prepared food to be eaten at home wordnet
- 20 cause to leave wordnet
- 21 make a date wordnet
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