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take aim

take aim verb: to position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at').

take aim: to position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target...
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Verb

take aim (third-person singular simple present takes aim, present participle taking aim, simple past took aim, past participle taken aim)

  1. (intransitive) To position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at')
    • He took aim at the prize bird meticulously and shot the cock from the distant flock with a single shot.
    • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
  2. (idiomatic) To direct criticism (towards).
    • He needed someone to blame for the bus accident, so took aim at the mechanics who failed to carry out the checks.

take aim meaning in Tamil and Telugu

take aim in Tamil

position oneself and/or one's weapon
குறிபார் kuṟipār

take aim in Telugu

to take aim
గురిపెట్టు guripeṭṭu, గురిచూచు guricūcu

Forms of take aim

third-person singular presenttakes aim
present participletaking aim
pasttook aim
past participletaken aim

Questions about take aim

What does take aim mean?
Take aim means to position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at').
What is take aim in Tamil?
Take aim in Tamil is குறிபார் (kuṟipār). See Take aim meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is take aim?
Take aim is a verb.
What is the past tense of take aim?
The past tense of take aim is took aim.

Words near take aim in the dictionary

  1. take action
  2. take advantage
  3. take advantage of
  4. take after
  5. take against
  6. take aim
  7. take air
  8. take aloft
  9. take an axe to
  10. take an l
  11. take apart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take aim (page history and authors); గురిచూచు (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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