take out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.79 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove.
verb
To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "At the same time, three sets of obsolete angle point protectors (used for slip connections), which were considered unsatisfactory, were taken out and several redundant connections removed."
- "In France, 27% of voters are currently backing the Front National, a party determined to take the country out of the Paris accord, which it sees as “a communist project”."
- "Let me take you out for dinner."
- "I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out."
- "I tore right through it and took him to the ground and knocked him out cold, "Ralph, oh your going to pay for that." he said and he started fighting me which he was good but not good enough and I took him out in no time."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
take-out
take someone out back