TAKE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take away mean? 

• TAKE AWAY (verb)
  The verb TAKE AWAY has 7 senses:

1. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

2. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

3. take out or remove

4. take from a person or place

5. buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food

6. get rid of something abstract

7. take away a part from; diminish

  Familiarity information: TAKE AWAY used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away

Context example:

I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

"Take away" entails doing...:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):

spirit away (carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously)

spirit away; spirit off (carry off mysteriously; as if by magic)

whisk away; whisk off (take away quickly and suddenly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

bring (go or come after and bring or take back)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

remove; take; take away; withdraw

Context example:

This machine withdraws heat from the environment

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):

depilate; epilate (remove body hair)

harvest (remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation)

tip (remove the tip from)

stem (remove the stem from)

extirpate (surgically remove (an organ))

enucleate (remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover)

exenterate (remove the contents of (an organ))

enucleate (remove the nucleus from (a cell))

decorticate (remove the cortex of (an organ))

bail (remove (water) from a vessel with a container)

disinvest; divest; strip; undress (remove (someone's or one's own) clothes)

ablate (remove an organ or bodily structure)

clean; pick (remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits)

clean (remove shells or husks from)

fan; winnow (blow away or off with a current of air)

pick (remove in small bits)

clear; clear up (free (the throat) by making a rasping sound)

muck (remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine)

lift (remove from a surface)

lift (take off or away by decreasing)

lift (remove from a seedbed or from a nursery)

rip off; tear away; tear off (remove by pulling or ripping violently and forcefully)

take off (take away or remove)

take away; take out (take out or remove)

pit; stone (remove the pits from)

seed (remove the seeds from)

unhinge (remove the hinges from)

shuck (remove the shucks from)

hull (remove the hulls from)

crumb (remove crumbs from)

chip away; chip away at (remove or withdraw gradually:)

burl (remove the burls from cloth)

knock out (destroy or break forcefully)

clean; scavenge (remove unwanted substances from)

hypophysectomise; hypophysectomize (remove the pituitary glands)

degas (remove gas from)

husk; shell (remove the husks from)

bur; burr (remove the burrs from)

clear away; clear off (remove from sight)

flick (remove with a flick (of the hand))

dismantle; strip (take off or remove)

strip (remove a constituent from a liquid)

clear (remove)

defang (remove the fangs from)

bone; debone (remove the bones from)

disembowel; draw; eviscerate (remove the entrails of)

shell (remove from its shell or outer covering)

shuck (remove from the shell)

detusk; tusk (remove the tusks of animals)

dehorn (prevent the growth of horns of certain animals)

scalp (remove the scalp of)

weed (clear of weeds)

condense (remove water from)

bail out; bale out (remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side)

leach; strip (remove substances from by a percolating liquid)

decalcify (remove calcium or lime from)

detoxicate; detoxify (remove poison from)

de-ionate (remove ions from)

de-iodinate (remove iodine from)

decarbonise; decarbonize; decarburise; decarburize; decoke (remove carbon from (an engine))

delouse (free of lice)

ream (remove by making a hole or by boring)

brush (remove with or as if with a brush)

wash; wash away; wash off; wash out (remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent)

desorb (remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed)

pull (take away)

demineralise; demineralize (remove the minerals or salts from)

eliminate (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)

clear out; drive out; expectorate (clear out the chest and lungs)

carve out (remove from a larger whole)

defuse (remove the triggering device from)

dredge (remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water)

wear away; wear off (diminish, as by friction)

amputate; cut off (remove surgically)

eviscerate; resect (surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ)

cream; cream off; skim; skim off (remove from the surface)

strip (remove the surface from)

strip (strip the cured leaves from)

descale; scale (remove the scales from)

circumcise (cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys)

undock (take (a ship) out of a dock)

cut into; delve; dig; turn over (turn up, loosen, or remove earth)

dig; excavate; hollow (remove the inner part or the core of)

lift out; scoop; scoop out; scoop up; take up (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)

draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)

take out (remove something from a container or an enclosed space)

unstring (remove the strings from)

string (remove the stringy parts of)

wipe away; wipe off (remove by wiping)

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away (remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state)

unveil (remove the cover from)

take out; unpack (remove from its packing)

disburden; unburden (take the burden off; remove the burden from)

empty (remove)

discharge (remove the charge from)

offsaddle; unsaddle (remove the saddle from)

cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off (get rid of)

dislodge; free (remove or force out from a position)

clean (remove while making clean)

aspirate; draw out; suck out (remove by suction)

cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)

lade; laden; ladle (remove with or as if with a ladle)

spoon (scoop up or take up with a spoon)

gut (remove the guts of)

head (remove the head of)

draw away; draw off; pull off (remove by drawing or pulling)

clean; strip (remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely)

draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

leach (cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate)

draw (cause to flow)

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

They want to take away the doors

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take out or remove

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

take away; take out

Context example:

take out the chicken after adding the vegetables

Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):

bus (remove used dishes from the table in restaurants)

kill; obliterate; wipe out (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase)

cross off; cross out; mark; strike off; strike out (remove from a list)

delete; erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)

cart away; cart off; haul away; haul off (take away by means of a vehicle)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take from a person or place

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

We took the abused child away from its parents

Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

take away; take out

Context example:

We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook

Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

takeaway (prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Get rid of something abstract

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

remove; take away

Context example:

God takes away your sins

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take away"):

wash away (eliminate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Take away a part from; diminish

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

detract; take away

Context example:

His bad manners detract from his good character

Hypernyms (to "take away" is one way to...):

bring down; cut; cut back; cut down; reduce; trim; trim back; trim down (cut down on; make a reduction in)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I come heer with no hope, and I take away no hope.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pluto will sometimes take away the one thing you assume you can’t live without—until you see you can, and when you do, you are stronger for it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought,” said Mrs. Bennet; “and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The soldier wished to take away some token of the place; so he broke off a little branch, and there came a loud noise from the tree.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But let me hear, ere you start, what gifts you take away with you from Beaulieu?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other ones beat him and take away his pay.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Later, HD can take away the ability to walk, talk, and swallow.

(Huntington's Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

When I had the boat empty again I was forced to take away the tarpaulin which covered Maud, in order that I might lash it down across the bow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I seem to grow colder every step that I take away from it. No, no, I can’t possibly leave it.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you will please take away the pole I shall be greatly obliged to you.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)