Synonyms of taking out

taking out

verb

present participle of take out

1

as in giving way (to)

to find emotional release for

he took out his frustrations by splitting a cord of firewood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• giving way (to)
• unleashing
• releasing
• acting out
• venting
• expressing
• voicing
• airing
• loosing
• stating
• ventilating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bottling (up)
• holding back
• governing
• suppressing
• managing
• controlling
• handling
• repressing
• pulling in
• containing
• checking
• restraining
• curbing
• constraining
• taming
• smothering
• reining (in)
• soothing
• quelling
• allaying
• quieting
• swallowing
• inhibiting
• choking
• stifling
• repressing
• strangling
• bridling
• pocketing
• lulling
• stilling
• muffling

2

as in going out (with)

to go on a social engagement with

she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime

Synonyms & Similar Words

• going out (with)
• accompanying
• dating
• seeing
• escorting
• courting
• wooing

3

as in removing

to take away from a place or position

the airline passenger took his laptop computer out of its carrying case

Synonyms & Similar Words

• removing
• withdrawing
• pulling
• drawing
• drawing off
• drawing out
• extracting
• clearing
• dislodging
• moving
• shifting
• demounting
• cutting
• abstracting
• transferring
• transposing
• displacing
• disturbing
• dislocating
• budging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• putting
• placing
• positioning
• mounting
• securing
• setting
• setting up
• fixing
• clamping
• anchoring
• mooring
• hitching
• embedding
• rooting
• lodging
• imbedding
• intrenching
• implanting
• sticking
• entrenching
• siting
• situating
• engraining
• ingraining

4

as in murdering

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdering
• assassinating
• putting away
• doing in
• executing
• doing away with
• slaying
• knocking off
• killing
• bumping off
• getting
• rubbing out
• dispatching
• neutralizing
• terminating
• cutting down
• blowing away
• liquidating
• snuffing
• carrying off
• whacking
• destroying
• shooting down
• icing
• slaughtering
• offing
• shooting
• blotting out
• croaking
• wiping out
• mowing (down)
• claiming
• eliminating
• zapping
• felling
• smiting
• eradicating
• butchering
• massacring
• exterminating
• annihilating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raising
• restoring
• reviving
• animating
• resurrecting
• resuscitating