tooken

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken or (archaic or Scotland) tane)

1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
   • They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.

   Synonyms:

   confiscate, seize

   1. (transitive) To seize or capture.
      • take the guards prisoner
   2. (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
      • took ten catfish in one afternoon
   3. (transitive) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
   4. (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
      • Billy took her pencil.
   5. (transitive) To exact.
      • take a toll

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