7. carry off, remove, appropriate; steal, rob, purloin, pilfer, abstract, fleece, Sl. swipe, Sl. pinch; shoplift; palm, Sl. boost, walk off with, Sl. crook, Sl. cop, Sl. rip off; pirate, Sl. lift, Inf. crib, plagiarize; confiscate, impound, commandeer, arrogate, usurp, expropriate, accroach; peculate, embezzle, misappropriate, Law. defalcate.
8. kill, destroy, put to death; liquidate, erase, obliterate, blot or wipe out, carry off, finish off; annihilate, exterminate, massacre, decimate.
9. Usu.
take away or
off subtract, deduct, withdraw, remove, Archaic, subduct; discount, Inf. lop off, Sl. knock off, reduce; take from, devalue, devaluate, lessen, weaken, diminish.
10. carry, Inf. tote, bear, bring, deliver, transmit; convey, transport; conduct, escort, guide, usher, lead.
11. clear, negotiate, get over or around, hurdle; vault or leap or spring or bound over; make it over.
12. captivate, charm, attract, fascinate; delight, enchant, enthrall, enrapture, bewitch; lure, snare, ensnare; dazzle, transport, mesmerize, hypnotize; hold [s.o.'s] attention, entertain, divert, amuse.
13. require, call for, need, have need for, demand, insist upon, want.
14. occupy, fill, fill up, use up, consume.
15. act, perform, do, execute; operate, work, take effect, be effective, be efficacious; Inf. do the trick.
16. study, pursue, practice, learn, take up; school oneself in, steep oneself in, apply oneself to, occupy oneself with; prepare for a career in.
17. grasp, understand, comprehend, apprehend, get; realize, perceive, know.
18. assume, undertake, adopt, enter upon, begin, set about, attend to; take upon oneself, accept, take responsibility for.
19. Often
take it presume, understand, gather, infer, deduce; suppose, guess, surmise, deem, reckon, suspect; imagine, believe, fancy, think.
20.
take after resemble, look like, favor, remind one of, be the spit and image or spitting image of, be a chip off the old block; be like, bear resemblance to, be out of the same mold or cut from the same cloth, be brothers under the skin; echo, reflect, mirror, image, copy.
21. take off after follow, chase, give chase, pursue, run or fly after, make after, Brit, chevy; hound, dog, bedog; stalk, course, track, run down.
22.
take back a. repossess, re-claim; accept back, welcome, forgive, forgive and forget,
b. exchange, return, bring back; trade, swap, switch; get one's money back.
c. remind, put in mind of, awake or call up memories of, make nostalgic,
d. retract, recant, unsay, disavow, Inf. eat or swallow one's words; deny, gainsay, repudiate, disclaim; back down, renege, backtrack, back-pedal, Inf. flip-flop.
23.
take down a. lower, let down, depress, drop; let sink, vail, dip.
b. dismantle, disassemble, take apart, tear down; raze, level, demolish, destroy, fell.
c. record, write down, put in or commit to writing; set down, chronicle, document, make a note or memorandum of.
d. humble, humiliate, mortify, shame, disgrace; degrade, debase, abase; discredit, devalue, detract; belittle, demean, deprecate, disparage.
24.
take in a. admit, let in, open the door to, give access or entree to.
b. lodge, board, house, quarter, billet, accommodate,
c. include, encompass, embrace, contain, comprise, cover,
d. grasp, comprehend; assimilate, absorb,
e. deceive, trick, cheat, defraud; cozen, dupe, gull, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, bamboozle, hoodwink, Sl. homswoggle; bilk, swindle, overcharge, mulct, Sl. soak, Sl. clip.
f. observe, notice, note; see, perceive, pick up, Inf. catch; not miss a trick or thing.