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Take away   /teɪk əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Take away

verb
1.
Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state.  Synonyms: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off.  "The car carried us off to the meeting" , "I'll take you away on a holiday" , "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
2.
Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.  Synonyms: remove, take, withdraw.  "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
3.
Take out or remove.  Synonym: take out.
4.
Take from a person or place.
5.
Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food.  Synonym: take out.
6.
Get rid of something abstract.  Synonym: remove.  "God takes away your sins"
7.
Take away a part from; diminish.  Synonym: detract.






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"Take away" Quotes from Famous Books



... got rid of our prisoners. They were allowed to take away with them all their own effects, and, as usually happens in such cases, I make little doubt some that belonged to other persons. The ships then made sail, each on her own course; the Spaniard running down the coast, while we spread our studding-sails for the island. As soon as this was done, ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... "Calabash, take away the wine," said the widow to her daughter. She hastened to obey, when Martial said, "Stop! I ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... you take away the box now, and hide it somewhere, and we'll meet you in the pantry at four o'clock, and you can give it to us, and we'll take it ourselves to Parker's, and ask them to send some more china to-night. We'll bring you the five shillings to-morrow ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... which is your own town I think, is, as all admit, a gem of Paradise: only it's a pity so many of the houses have been unroofed lately. It adds perhaps to the picturesque effect, but it must, I should think, take away from ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... heavy one—all of lead," moaned my nurse, one night in December, standing still, just as she was going to take away the light after putting me to bed. Then she took me up again and wrapped me in a little gown, and led me away to my father's room. She knocked, but no one answered. She opened the door, and we found him in his easy chair before the fire, ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne


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