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Verbs (7)

v. take from a person or place; "We took the abused child away from its parents"

v. take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"

v. get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"

take out, take away

v. buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook"

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Fuzzynyms (91)

entertain

v. provide entertainment for

excise

v. remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"

obliterate

v. do away with completely, without leaving a trace

draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out

v. bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"

pull

v. take away; "pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf"

erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out

v. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

relax, loose, become less tight

v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

take out

v. remove something from a container or an enclosed space

extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber

v. release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

free, disengage

v. free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor"

untie, unbrace, unlace

v. undo the ties of; "They untied the prisoner"

unclutter, clear

v. rid of obstructions; "Clear your desk"

empty

v. make void or empty of contents; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building"

dispossess

v. deprive of the possession of real estate

sequester

v. requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

decimate

v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off, mark

v. remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"

detach

v. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"

isolate

v. separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

remove, transfer

v. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"

take out, move out, remove

v. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

sequester

v. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"

segregate

v. separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"

disqualify, unfit, indispose

v. make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you"

doff

v. remove; "He doffed his hat"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle

v. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

evacuate

v. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)

leave, leave alone, leave behind

v. leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

shorten

v. make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"

chop, hack

v. cut with a hacking tool

bear

v. move while holding up or supporting; "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders"

have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect

v. be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"

take, get hold of

v. get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"

hack

v. cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"

slip

v. cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion; "he slipped the bolt into place"

scratch, scrape, scratch up

v. cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

grate, grind

v. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

graze

v. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping; "She was grazed by the stray bullet"

rasp

v. scrape with a rasp

score, nock, mark

v. make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"

Synonyms (6)

withdraw, draw, take out, draw off

v. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

take in

v. visit for entertainment; "take in the sights"

subtract

v. take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"

Antonyms (24)

pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give

v. place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

supply, provide, render, furnish

v. give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"

provide, supply, ply, cater

v. give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

flatter, blandish

v. praise somewhat dishonestly

add

v. make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"

lodge, wedge, stick, deposit

v. put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"

add, add together

v. make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49, please!"

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