take sth away
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(REMOVE)
B2 to remove something:
Take these chairs away - we don't need them.
Supermarkets are taking business away from small local shops.
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- Mum was so cross with him, she threatened to take all his toys away.
- The men didn't come to take the rubbish away.
- I can't eat any more, thanks - you can take it away now.
- I was a bit worried when an official came and took my passport away.
- Every individual has rights that must never be taken away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking things away from someone or somewhere
- appropriate
- confiscate
- cream sth/sb off
- de-
- debug
- denude
- drain
- impound
- infringe on/upon sth
- knock
- knock sth out of sb
- nab
- relieve
- shelf
- strip sb of sth
- suck
- suck sb/sth dry idiom
- sweep
- take sth out
- tow
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Removing and extracting
(CALCULATE)
B1 to subtract a number (= remove it from another number):
Four take away two is two.
If you take 4 away from 12 you get 8.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- cube
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- quadruple
- table
- times
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(LEARN)
to get a particular message or piece of information from something you read or are told :
What I took away from his talk is that going to university is definitely worth it.
(FOOD)
B1 UK US take out to buy food in a restaurant and eat it somewhere else:
Is that to eat in or take away?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing & serving meals
- cater
- catering
- dish (sth) up
- dish sth out
- do 1
- do the honours idiom
- honour
- place
- plate sth up
- provision
- rustle
- rustle sth up
- serve
- serve sth up
- table
- take
- take sth out
- wait
- whip
- whip sth up
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