take out

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
take out
    v 1: cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the
         classroom" [syn: {take out}, {move out}, {remove}]
    2: remove from its packing; "unpack the presents" [syn:
       {unpack}, {take out}] [ant: {pack}]
    3: take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the
       vegetables" [syn: {take away}, {take out}] [ant: {add}]
    4: obtain by legal or official process; "take out a license";
       "take out a patent"
    5: make a date; "Has he asked you out yet?" [syn: {ask out},
       {invite out}, {take out}]
    6: remove something from a container or an enclosed space
    7: purchase prepared food to be eaten at home [syn: {take out},
       {buy food}]
    8: remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000
       from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from
       the hospital's emergency bank" [syn: {withdraw}, {draw},
       {take out}, {draw off}] [ant: {bank}, {deposit}]
    9: bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a
       cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled
       a knife on his victim" [syn: {draw}, {pull}, {pull out}, {get
       out}, {take out}]
    10: take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from
        the barrel" [syn: {draw}, {take out}]
    11: remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an
        abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take
        out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
        [syn: {extract}, {pull out}, {pull}, {pull up}, {take out},
        {draw out}]
    12: buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that
        sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too
        tired to cook" [syn: {take out}, {take away}]
    13: take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy [syn:
        {excerpt}, {extract}, {take out}]
    14: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
        bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the
        top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {except}, {leave out}, {leave
        off}, {omit}, {take out}] [ant: {include}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "take out":
      abscind, amputate, annihilate, attend, avulse, ban, bar, bob,
      chaperon, clear away, clip, conduct, convoy, crop, cull, cut,
      cut away, cut off, cut out, deracinate, dig out, dig up, discount,
      disentangle, dock, draw, draw back, draw out, dredge, dredge up,
      eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, escort, esquire, evolve, evulse,
      excavate, except, excise, exclude, exsect, extinguish, extirpate,
      extract, extricate, get out, gouge out, grub up, guard, guide,
      isolate, knock off, lead, lop, marshal, mine, mutilate, nip, pare,
      peel, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, prune, pull, pull out,
      pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, root out, root up,
      rule out, see, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shepherd,
      squire, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, subtract, take,
      take away, take off, tear out, truncate, unearth, unravel, uproot,
      usher, wait on, weed out, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

    

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