take out
verb
- obtain, draw (out)
- kill
- to unfairly direct a negative emotion towards someone/something
- to take time to vacation
Wiktionary
noun
- Nonstandard spelling of takeout.
verb
- To remove.
“Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.”
“At the same time, three sets of obsolete angle point protectors (used for slip connections), which were considered unsatisfactory, were taken out and several redundant connections removed.”
- To escort someone on a date.
“Let me take you out for dinner.”
- To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
“I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out.”
“I tore right through it and took him to the ground and knocked him out cold, "Ralph, oh your going to pay for that." he said and he started fighting me which he was good but not good enough and I took him out in no time.”
- To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
“take out a loan; take out medical insurance; take out a membership; take out a patent”
“Southwark council, which took out the injunction against Matt, believes YouTube has become the "new playground" for gang members.”
- To kill or destroy.
“The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary.”
“Anyway, one of the snipers took him out.”
- To stun, amaze; to kill.
“These photos are taking me out.”
“User directional transsexual (@north0fnorth) added: "Playing 'Empire State of Mind' while wheeling out the kind of trash bin that every other major U.S. city has had forever and calling it a revolution is taking me out."”
- To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.