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taken out of context

taken out of context is the past participle of take out of context.

Meaning of take out of context

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.
    • The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.
    Synonyms:
    decontextualize
    Antonyms:
    contextualize

Questions about taken out of context

What is taken out of context the past participle of?
Taken out of context is the past participle of take out of context.

Words near taken out of context in the dictionary

  1. taken oneself up by one's own ears
  2. taken orders
  3. taken out
  4. taken out an onion
  5. taken out in trade
  6. taken out of context
  7. taken out the trash
  8. taken over
  9. taken pains
  10. taken part
  11. taken part with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taken out of context (page history and authors); take out of context (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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