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took out of context

took out of context is the simple past 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 took out of context

What is took out of context the simple past of?
Took out of context is the simple past of take out of context.

Words near took out of context in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took 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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