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Take away

verb

Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state. Synonyms: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off. "The car carried us off to the meeting" , "I'll take you away on a holiday" , "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract. Synonyms: remove, take, withdraw. "Remove a wrapper" , "Remove the dirty dishes from the table" , "Take the gun from your pocket" , "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

Take out or remove. Synonym: take out.

Take from a person or place.

Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food. Synonym: take out.

Get rid of something abstract. Synonym: remove. "God takes away your sins"

Take away a part from; diminish. Synonym: detract.

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"Take away" Quotes from Famous Books

... if one had given only six months to teaching Pilate the truths of logic, he would assuredly have made this conclusive syllogism. One must not take away the life of a man who has only preached good morality: well, the man who has been impeached has, on the showing of his enemies even, often preached excellent morality; therefore he should not be ...

— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... teach you, and help you against the consequences of your own sins. Safer than you, because God in whom I trust will protect me: and if not, I have still the everlasting life of heaven, which this world cannot give or take away. So go your ways, fight and devour one another, the victims of your own lusts. I am minded to be a good man; and to be that, I will give up—as you have made all other methods impossible for me—all which seems to make life worth having'? Oh! instead of ...

— The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge • Charles Kingsley

... once, and there are plagues in Egypt still. The wilder the people we meet, the less likely they will be to interfere with a learned Hakim. They will come to him for help. They know that he can take away disease, and they will think he can give disease amongst them like a curse. I know what the people fancy, and what they will do. No, the caravan is not too large, Excellencies. I should have liked it to be larger, for there are many things that would have been useful when we are far away where ...

— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn

... know what I 'expect you to believe,' I've already told you. I might tell you a little more, but then I shouldn't expect you to believe it, so what would be the good? It seems to me the best thing to do now is to send for Snewin to take away all this mess, move the furniture, and mend the hole in the ceiling. If once ...

— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour

... all social conventionalities are put aside. This situation conceals a reef on which many vessels are wrecked. A husband is lost, if he once forgets there is a modesty which is quite independent of coverings. Conjugal love ought never either to put on or to take away the bandage of its eyes, excepting ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

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