take

About 317.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

   They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.

2. verb To seize or capture.

   take the guards prisoner

3. verb To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

   took ten catfish in one afternoon

4. verb To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
5. verb To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.

   Billy took her pencil.

6. verb To exact.

   take a toll

7. verb To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

   took the next two tricks

8. verb To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).

   took third place

Similar words

get hold of take up undergo pick out hold get take on acquire convey submit

Often followed by

the a place it care up into advantage on over

Word family

taken taker takers takes taking took