to take away
795
2.3
- phrasal verb
- /ˈteɪk əˌweɪ/
:
quitar
- Just make sure nobody takes it away from you.
- take away the right
- take away jobs
- take away money
Jesus, Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
- Jesus, Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
- So and, and you take away that incentive.
- I do not want to take the focus away from the right.
- Advancement, robots, robotics, where it takes away people's jobs.
- That alone can take attention away from useless thinking.
- And so any chase often takes away my freedom.
- No one else can take that away from me, no one.
- But for me, I like films that take me away from the daily life.
- If you tax people and take their money away, they may work less hard.
- They are for taking away rights of its citizens.
- Sure, that doesn't take away our effort at all.
- And then they take Kiefer's body away, right?
Examples
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If you tax people and take their money away, they may work less hard.
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The new law aims to take away the excessive power that corporations have over local communities.
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Like, no one's actually trying to take rights away from these men.
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And if they are so loud, they will take away the peace of our land.
Fiction book (1992) -
Take away the functions, and you take away the purposes of community and family.
Academic text (1991) -
Look, you are trying to take away my freedoms here, Sir.
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By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential.
Academic text (2008) -
A great deal of guilt and feelings of abnormality can be taken away by such a description.
Academic text (1999) -
I plead not guilty; this is my livelihood. Do not take it away from me; it will cause ruin.
Academic text (2017) -
I'm going to Wintersset, Iowa, and, whatever the cost, take Francesca away with me.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Remove something from a place or person
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
∞
1.6
To remove or throw away something you do not want
948
1.9
To remove something from a place or container
159
3.5
To take money or things out of a place where they are kept
136
3.2
To remove something unwanted from a place
88
3.7
Remove something so it is no longer used
88
3.5
To move people or things away, sometimes because of strong feeling
48
5.1
Take away someone's possessions, rights, or honours
32
5.9
Make something seem less good or less valuable
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
8
8.4
Steal something from someone in a secret way
6
4.5
To pull something off quickly with force
4
7.2
Take away power, rights, or property from someone by official order
4
4.4
To take a person to another place or to move someone's feelings suddenly
1
7.0
To carry someone or something away from a place to another
Move a person or thing from one place into a different state, often by force
Antonyms
How Removed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun sense 'takeaway' (main point) is a metaphorical nominalization of 'take away' — you figuratively 'take away' (remove/keep) a lesson from an event. Knowing 'take' and 'away' helps learners infer this abstract meaning, but the mapping from physical removal to an abstract lesson is metaphorical rather than strictly compositional, so it is not fully predictable without some exposure.
Etymology
Take away comes from the simple picture of someone picking up an object and carrying it away, as if they take it away from a place. So, it came to mean 'to remove' or 'to make something smaller', like taking away rights or feelings.