demit/diʹmit/ verb trans (demitted, demitting)

• take the gilt off the gingerbread
• take the law into one's own hands
• take the mickey
• take the piss
• take the place of
• take the plunge
• take the salute
• take the shine off
• take the veil
• take the wind out of somebody's sails
• take the words out of somebody's mouth
• take to
• take (to) flight
• take to one's heels
• take to pieces
• take to something like a duck to water
• take to the cleaners/take somebody to the cleaners
• take turns/take it in turns
• take up
• take-up
• take up the cudgels
• take up the gauntlet
• take up with
• take wing
• takin