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
straight out
plainly, in a way that hides nothing
The man was told straight out that his work was not satisfactory.