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take someone's fancy

take someone's fancy verb: synonym of strike someone's fancy.

Verb

take someone's fancy (third-person singular simple present takes someone's fancy, present participle taking someone's fancy, simple past took someone's fancy, past participle taken someone's fancy)

  1. Synonym of strike someone's fancy.

Synonyms of take someone's fancy

Forms of take someone's fancy

third-person singular presenttakes someone's fancy
present participletaking someone's fancy
pasttook someone's fancy
past participletaken someone's fancy

Questions about take someone's fancy

What does take someone's fancy mean?
Take someone's fancy means synonym of strike someone's fancy.
What part of speech is take someone's fancy?
Take someone's fancy is a verb.
What is the past tense of take someone's fancy?
The past tense of take someone's fancy is took someone's fancy.

Words near take someone's fancy in the dictionary

  1. take someone to brown town
  2. take someone to the grave
  3. take someone up short
  4. take someone's arm
  5. take someone's breath away
  6. take someone's fancy
  7. take someone's head off
  8. take someone's life
  9. take someone's name in vain
  10. take someone's part
  11. take someone's place

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