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Take away

verb

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"

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"

Take out or remove. Synonym: take out.

Take from a person or place.

Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food. Synonym: take out.

Get rid of something abstract. Synonym: remove. "God takes away your sins"

Take away a part from; diminish. Synonym: detract.

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"Take away" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact the very considerable phenomenon in the social and political world which all acknowledge her to be. And all this she has achieved in the course of three centuries, entirely in consequence of her predominance as an ocean power. Take away her merchant fleets; take away the navy that guards them: her empire will come to an end; her colonies will fall off, like leaves from a withered tree; and Britain will become once more an insignificant island in the North Sea, for the future students in Australian and New Zealand universities ...

— English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century - Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 • James Anthony Froude

... this is," continued Haredale violently, "and why you have come. What is he to you? Why do you know him—visit him—shield him? Oh! my God! it only wanted this to complete my misery. I have, now, not one single happy memory to take away ...

— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... Macumazahn; words that take away my appetite, which is generally excellent at this hour. Well, if Mameena is bad it is not my fault, for I brought her up to be good. After all," he added with an outburst of petulance, "why do you scold me when it is your fault? If you had run ...

— Child of Storm • H. Rider Haggard

... and women will look blank at such heresy. "What!" they will exclaim, "take away the belief in the Bible, and the service of God? Why, our lives would be empty. What would you give ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... advised John to bleed Frog under the tongue, or take away his bread-and-butter, which would certainly make him speak; to give Esquire South hellebore; as for Lewis, some were for emollient poultices, others for opening his arm with ...

— The History of John Bull • John Arbuthnot

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