taking

Roget category 789

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.2. Transfer of property

#789. Taking

noun

taking etc. v. — reception etc. (taking in) 296 — deglutition etc. (taking food) 298 — appropriation, prehension, prensation^† — capture, caption — apprehension, deprehension^† — abreption^†, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation — subtraction, withdrawal etc. 38 — abstraction, ademption^† — adrolepsy^†.
dispossession — deprivation, deprivement^† — bereavement — divestment — disherison^† — distraint, distress — sequestration, confiscation — eviction etc. 297.
rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism — theft etc. 791.
resumption — reprise, reprisal — recovery etc. 775.
clutch, swoop, wrench — grip etc. (retention) 781 — haul, take, catch — scramble.
taker, captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].

verb

take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket — receive — accept.
reap, crop, cull, pluck — gather etc. (get) 775 — draw.
appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^† — assume, possess oneself of — take possession of — commandeer — lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on — help oneself to — make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution — intercept — scramble for — deprive of.
take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off — adeem^† — abstract — hurry off with, run away with — abduct — steal etc. 791 — ravish — seize — pounce upon, spring upon — swoop to, swoop down upon — take by storm, take by assault — snatch, reave^†.
snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up — kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.
get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of — lay by the heels, take prisoner — fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.
catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at — reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.
take from, take away from — disseize^† — deduct etc. 38 — retrench etc. (curtail) 201 — dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp — tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from — extort — deprive of, bereave — disinherit, cut off with a shilling.
oust etc. (eject) 297 — divest — levy, distrain, confiscate — sequester, sequestrate — accroach^† — usurp — despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^†, impoverish, eat out of house and home — drain, drain to the dregs — gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up — absorb etc. (suck in) 296 — draw off — suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
retake, resume — recover etc. 775.

adjective

taking etc. v. — privative^†, prehensile — predaceous, predal^†, predatory, predatorial^† — lupine, rapacious, raptorial — ravenous — parasitic.
bereft etc. 776.

adverb

at one fell swoop.

phrase

give an inch and take an ell.

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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