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Synonyms and Antonyms of taking out
- he took out his frustrations by splitting a cord of firewood
controlling, governing, handling, managing
bridling, checking, constraining, containing, curbing, holding back, pulling in, quelling, reining (in), restraining, smothering, taming
allaying, lulling, quieting, soothing, stilling
choking, inhibiting, muffling, pocketing, repressing, stifling, strangling, swallowing
- she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime
- the airline passenger took his laptop computer out of its carrying case
anchoring, clamping, fixing, hitching, mooring, securing, setting
embedding (also imbedding), entrenching (also intrenching), implanting, ingraining (also engraining), lodging, rooting
- the rumor is that the CIA is planning to take him out before he can seize control of the country
assassinating, bumping off, croaking [slang], dispatching, doing in, executing, getting, icing [slang], knocking off, liquidating, murdering, neutralizing, offing [slang], putting away, rubbing out, slaying, snuffing, terminating, whacking [slang]
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