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takingadjective very pleasing to look athad never seen such a taking city as Venice aesthetic(also esthetic or aesthetical or esthetical), attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bonny(also bonnie, chiefly British), comely, cute, drop-dead, fair, fetching, good, good-looking, goodly, gorgeous, handsome, knockout, likely, lovely, lovesome, pretty, ravishing, seemly, sightly, stunning, well-favored alluring, appealing, charming, cunning, delightful, engaging, fascinating, glamorous(also glamourous), prepossessingelegant, exquisite, glorious, Junoesque, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, statuesque, sublime, superbflawless, perfect, radiantdainty, delicatepersonable, pleasant, presentablechocolate-box, prettyishdesirable, dishy, dollish, foxy, hot, luscious, nubile, pulchritudinous, seductive, sexy, toothsomehunky, studly(slang)arresting, eye-catching, flamboyant, flashy, glossy, showstopping, showy, slick, snazzy, splashy, striking, zingyphotogenic, telegenic grotesque, hideous, homely, ill-favored, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncute, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly abhorrent, abominable, bad, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, offensive, repellent(also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, terrible, vileunappealing, unappetizing, unimposing, unpleasant, unprepossessingfrumpish, frumpy, unbecoming, unshapely takingverbpresent participle of taketo reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or armstake my hand, or we'll get separated in this crowd clasping, grasping, gripping, holding clenching, clinging (to), clutching, holding on (to)catching, nabbing, seizing, snatching hanging on to, laying hold of discharging, dropping, freeing, liberating, releasingdelivering, entrusting(also intrusting), giving, handing, handing over, passing, relinquishing, transferring, transmitting, turning over, unhanding to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantlywill you take that call? took a cut in pay accepting, having acceding (to), assenting (to), conceding (to), confirming, consenting (to), OK'ing(or okaying), ratifying, sanctioning, warrantingacquiescing (to), bowing (to), capitulating (to), giving in (to), submitting (to), succumbing (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to)abiding, bearing, brooking, countenancing, enduring, shouldering, standing, sticking out, stomaching, supporting, sustaining, swallowing, sweating out, toleratingadopting, embracing, welcoming declining, denying, disallowing, disapproving, negativing, refusing, rejecting, spurning, turning down, vetoing dissenting (to), objecting (to), opposing, protestingholding off, resisting, withstandingcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting to become affected with (a disease or disorder)if you don't cover your head in this weather, you'll take cold and be stuck inside all weekend catching, coming down (with), contracting, getting, going down (with)(chiefly British), sickening (with) breaking out (with)dying (from), succumbing (to)failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worsening coming back, gaining, healing, mending, recouping, recovering, recuperating, snapping backrallying, rebounding, recovering (from), shaking (off) to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilitiesyou can take the white side this time, since I got to be white for our last chess game cherry-picking, choosing, culling, electing, handpicking, naming, opting (for), picking, preferring, selecting, singling (out), tagging preselectingappointing, designating, fixing, marking, nominating, setting, tabbing, tappingaccepting, adopting, embracing, espousingsettling (on or upon) declining, refusing, rejecting, turning down disapproving, negativing, repudiating, spurningdiscarding, jettisoning, throwing away, throwing out to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange forI'll take two cheeseburgers to go, please buying, copping(slang), picking up, purchasing acquiring, gaining, garnering, getting, obtaining, procuring, securing, winningfinancing, paying (for), springing (for)bartering (for), dealing (for), dickering (over), exchanging (for), haggling (for), negotiating (about), trading (for)bargaining (with), chaffering (with), horse-trading (with), paltering (with)bidding, offeringrebuying, repurchasing dealing (in), marketing, merchandising(also merchandizing), retailing, selling, vending to have as a requirementit will take a lot of courage to stand up for what is right bearing, challenging, claiming, demanding, necessitating, needing, requiring, wanting, warranting entailing, involvingasking, begging, claiming, clamoring (for), crying (for)hurting (for), lackingcommanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting, pressing, questing, stipulating calling for having, holding owning, possessing to make or have room forI think we can take two more in this elevator accommodating, fitting, holding carrying, containing, seatingenclosing(also inclosing), encompassing, enfoldingharboring, housing to produce a desired effectit will be a few hours before this medication takes acting, operating, performing, working behaving, reacting, respondingaffecting, influencing, swayingpanning out, redounding, resulting taking effect, taking hold backfiringfizzling to put up with (something painful or difficult)I can't take anymore of your whining about your former boyfriend abiding, absorbing, accepting, bearing, biding(chiefly dialect), brooking, countenancing, enduring, going, hacking, handling, meeting, pocketing, standing, sticking out, stomaching, supporting, sustaining, sweating out, tolerating, wearing(British) allowing, permitting, suffering, swallowingreconciling (to)acquiescing, agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), respecting, submitting (to), yielding (to) living with, lumping (it), standing for, toughing it out declining, dismissing, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning, turning downcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting, opposing, resistingavoiding, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, eluding, escaping, evading, missingabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from) to regard as right or trueI think we can take his word for it accepting, believing, buying, crediting, swallowing, trusting accounting, accrediting, understandingassuming, presuming, supposingconcluding, deducing, inferring setting store by(or setting store on) disbelieving, discrediting, rejecting distrusting, doubting, misdoubting, mistrusting, questioning, suspectingchallenging, disputing to achieve a victory overI know we can take that team beating, besting, conquering, defeating, dispatching, doing down(British), getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, subduing, surmounting, trimming, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting sweepingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing(slang), whippingcapping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingknocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending getting the better of, knocking for a loop losing (to) falling, giving up, going down, going undercollapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlylet's take each problem separately addressing, contending (with), coping (with), fielding, grappling (with), hacking, handling, managing, maneuvering, manipulating, negotiating, playing, swinging, treating engineering, finessing, jockeyingbringing off, carrying off, carrying out, getting off, pullingcommanding, directing, guiding, steeringcontrolling, micromanaging, regulating, runningreacting (to), responding (to) coming to grips with, having a grip on botching, bungling, foozling, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), mishandling, muffing, scamping to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) tothe school takes only a small percentage of the thousands of applicants admitting, entering, receiving entertaining, welcomingfellowshipping(also fellowshiping)confirming, ratifying banning, barring declining, disallowing, disapproving, dismissing, refusing, rejectingblackballing, blacklisting, ostracizingbanishing, deporting, exiling, expelling, ousting, throwing out to deprive of lifeI never thought heart disease would take such an athletic and health-conscious person carrying off, claiming, croaking(slang), destroying, dispatching, doing in, felling, killing, slaying bumping off, butchering, cutting down, finishing, getting, icing(slang), knocking off, murdering, neutralizing, offing(slang), putting away, rubbing out, scragging, snuffing, taking out, wasting, whacking(slang)annihilating, blotting out, decimating, killing off, massacring, mowing, slaughtering, smitingassassinating, executing, martyring, terminatingeuthanizing(also euthanatizing), putting downsuiciding doing away with, doing for(chiefly British), making away with animating raising, restoring, resurrecting, resuscitating, revivingnurturing |