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What is the verb for take?

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take

(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

(transitive) To seize or capture.
(transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
(transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
(transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
(transitive) To exact.
(transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

(transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

(transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
(transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc).
(transitive) To receive into some relationship.
(transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).

(transitive) To remove.

(transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
(transitive) To subtract.

(transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
(transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
(transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).

(transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
(transitive, of a path, road, etc) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
(transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
(transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
(reflexive) To go.

(transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
(obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
(transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.

(transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.

(transitive) To consume.

(transitive) To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
(transitive) To partake of (food or drink); to consume.

(transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.

(transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
(transitive) To experience or feel.
(transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
(transitive) To participate in.
(transitive) To suffer, to endure (a hardship or damage).

(transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
(transitive) To regard in a specified way.
(transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
(transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
(transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
(transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
(transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
(transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
(transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
(transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
(transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
(transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
(transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
(transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
(transitive) To require.
(transitive) To proceed to fill.
(transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
(transitive) To avail oneself of.
(transitive) To perform, to do.
(transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).

(transitive) To assume (a form).
(transitive) To perform (a role).
(transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).

(transitive) To bind oneself by.
(transitive) To move into.
(transitive) To go into, through, or along.
(transitive) To have or take recourse to.
(transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
(transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
(transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
(transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
(transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
(transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
(transitive) To deal with.
(transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
(transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
(grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
(intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
(intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.

(intransitive, of ink, dye, etc) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
(intransitive, of a plant, etc) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
(intransitive, of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
(intransitive, possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
(intransitive) To have the intended effect.

(intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
(intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
(intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
(transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
(transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
Synonyms:

acquire, get, attain, obtain, procure, secure, bag, gain, land, snap up, take possession of, extract, get into one's hands, get one's fingers on, get one's mitts on, get your hands on, glean, lay hands on, lay hold of, elicit, gather up, haul in, prehend, pull in, pick up, receive, claim, lay claim to, hold out for, hit up, respond to, answer, grab, hold, clench, grasp, grip, clasp, snare, snatch, wrest, catch, nab, seize, snag, catch hold of, cling to, clutch, get hold of, grab hold of … more

Examples:

“I would take my hot dog from the street vendor once he had finished preparing it.”

“Enough tomfoolery. It's time to take the bull by the horns.”

“I had to take the anchovies off from my pizza myself as they had forgotten my request not to add them as a topping.”

taking

taken

past participle of take
Synonyms:

took

simple past tense of take
(obsolete) past participle of take
Synonyms:

Examples:

“I took my hot dog from the street vendor once he had finished preparing it.”

“After some tomfoolery, he then took the bull by the horns.”

“I took the anchovies off from my pizza myself as they had forgotten my request not to add them as a topping.”

tooken

(dialect, nonstandard) past participle of take; nonstandard form of taken; past tense of take; nonstandard form of took.
Examples:

“He tooken sick two or three weeks later jus' before Labor Day, and died all paralyzed up.”

“For Mr. Combs and all the other hip-hop capitalists, the object isn't merely to take, but to avoid being tooken.”

“The EMN Asset Building Working Group is launched in 2010 and it first meeting ihas tooken place on the 23rd of June.”

takes

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of take
Synonyms:

taketh

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of take
Examples:

“Yet the final experimental chart is more complicated: data-vis giveth, data-vis taketh away.”

“It is He Who giveth life and Who taketh it, and to Him shall ye all be brought back.”

“In Jesus, bruised, mocked, and hanging upon the cross, he sees the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.”

tooketh

(nonstandard, pseudo-archaic, hypercorrect) alternative third person singular past tense form of take

takest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of take

tookest

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of take

takeing

Archaic spelling of taking.

tooke

Obsolete spelling of took

taked

(nonstandard, colloquial) simple past tense of take

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