Take away

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. To remove something and put it in a different place.

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2. To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.

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   1. To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.

      The mother of the murdered man spoke directly to the man who took away her son, then addressed the judge, whom she trusted would impose the maximum sentence.

3. To subtract or diminish something.

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4. To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.

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5. Template:Lb To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.

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6. Template:Lb To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.

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Usage notes

All senses are transitive and the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

Synonyms

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Translations

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• Gothic: Template:T
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• Sanskrit: Template:T
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• Turkish: Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T

• Arabic:

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• French: Template:T+
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• German: Template:T+
• Gothic: Template:T
• Greek:

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• Italian: Template:T+
• Khmer: Template:T
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• Latin: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T-needed
• Lithuanian: Template:T-needed
• Old English: Template:T
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• Quechua: Template:T
• Sanskrit: Template:T, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T-needed
• Tocharian B: Template:T
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T, Template:T

• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+, Template:T+
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• Finnish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T
• Vietnamese: Template:T, Template:T

• Finnish: Template:T, Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+, Template:T+
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Preposition

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   Five take away two is three. $(5-2=3)$

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References

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