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took a chance

took a chance is the simple past of take a chance.

Meaning of take a chance

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To risk doing something; to try something risky.
    • He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist.

Questions about took a chance

What is took a chance the simple past of?
Took a chance is the simple past of take a chance.

Words near took a chance in the dictionary

  1. took a break
  2. took a breath
  3. took a breather
  4. took a bullet
  5. took a chair
  6. took a chance
  7. took a cotton to
  8. took a crack at
  9. took a crap
  10. took a decision
  11. took a deep breath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took a chance (page history and authors); take a chance (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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