TAKE OUT Synonyms: 140 Similar and Opposite Words

take out

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as in to unleash

to find emotional release for he took out his frustrations by splitting a cord of firewood

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as in to accompany

to go on a social engagement with she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime

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as in to remove

to take away from a place or position the airline passenger took his laptop computer out of its carrying case

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as in to assassinate

to put to death deliberately the rumor is that the CIA is planning to take him out before he can seize control of the country

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Recent Examples of take out Moriarty pushed back hard, publicly calling out Reno and even taking out ads in industry trade magazines to defend creative expression. —

Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026 Millions of Gen Zers are facing unemployment as entry-level office roles get absorbed by AI, and millennials are regretting taking out thousands in student loans for careers that now have significantly diminished prospects. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026 Finally, the officers corral the woman and another clip shows her being taken out of the restaurant in a stretcher. —

Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026 Young, at the time working as a pizza maker at a Wegmans grocery store, briefly opened the door and then tried to shut it, taking out the knife when McEvilley nudged it back. —

Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for take out

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For example, the higher estimates for the infamous August 2013 East Ghoutta chemical weapons attack, which saw sarin nerve gas unleashed on an urban civilian area, are 1,500 dead.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The societies that can advance to the frontiers of the productive power that capitalism unleashes while maintaining their coherence and élan advance to the front of the race for international status and power.

— Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026