v.
1.take to be the case or to be true
2.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
3.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
4.take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
5.occupy or take on
6.seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
7.make a pretence of
8.Christianity, obsolete
9.put clothing on one's body
Idiom of the Day
dress (someone) down or dress down (someone)
to scold someone
The supervisor took the clerk into her office to dress her down.