take something to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.56 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To apply (some instrument or implement) to (something else, to undertake a task or attack upon it, usually vigorously).
verb
To experience application of (some instrument or implement).
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take.
Example Sentences
- "A lot of officers when they knock off a still will take an axe to the barrels."
- "The last guy to take a mower to this place must have been General MacArthur. It was as bad as any course in the U.S., yet it cost $100 to play on Saturdays. Doesn't matter. The golfers started lining up at two in the morning."
- "Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in."
- "It's quite something that I'm standing here with the door open, and that I'm thinking what fun it would be to take a trimmer to that grass and sort my plants from the weeds. That's progress—after all, I haven't got my hands dirty in[…]"
- "He recounted the story of a heretic who took a sword to a statue of Mary, which began to bleed. […]"
- "It turns one of the dickheads Nick took a baseball bat to is the nephew of a hick cop on the force out there."