💭 Understood as 🤒 Suddenly affected

taken

7.0

Suddenly feeling ill or drunk without warning

adjective
/ˈteɪkən/

: afectado

She was taken ill during the concert and had to leave early.

Examples

Since she was taken unwell last week, she has been resting a lot at home.
Number three, reason why married or taken men keep approaching you.
After the party, he felt taken drunk and needed assistance getting home.

Antonyms

health

∞ 1.0

The condition of a person's body and mind, especially being free from illness or injury

sobriety

49 4.6

A state of not drinking alcohol or using drugs

Idioms

taken for granted

Informal

23 3.7

To expect something to last and not care about it

taken with

Informal

16 7.1

Feeling a strong liking for someone or something, often very quickly

Compounds

drink taken

8.4

A person who has had alcohol and acts or feels different

Surface Forms

taken positive

Morphology

taken = take (semi-transparent) = take + en

The form is the past participle of 'take' (+ -en) used adjectivally; the idiomatic collocation 'taken ill' meaning 'become ill' is not fully predictable from 'take' alone.

Etymology

Taken comes from the old verb take, which itself comes from an old Norse word taka meaning 'to grab'. So when someone is 'taken ill' or 'taken drunk', it is like the illness or drink has 'grabbed' them.