Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Taking

Nouns
  • taking etc. v.
  • reception etc. (taking in) [Motion into, actively.] Reception
  • deglutition etc. (taking food) [Eating.] Food
  • appropriation, prehension, prensation
  • capture, caption
  • apprehension, deprehension
  • abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation
  • subtraction, withdrawal etc. Nonaddition. Subtraction
  • abstraction, ademption
  • adrolepsy. dispossession
  • deprivation, deprivement
  • bereavement
  • divestment
  • disherison
  • distraint, distress
  • sequestration, confiscation
  • eviction etc. [Motion out of, actively] Ejection. rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism
  • theft etc. Stealing. resumption
  • reprise, reprisal
  • recovery etc. Acquisition. clutch, swoop, wrench
  • grip etc. (retention) Retention
  • haul, take, catch
  • scramble. taker, captor. [Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate] subduction [Geol.].
Verbs
  • take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket
  • receive
  • accept. reap, crop, cull, pluck
  • gather etc. (get) Acquisition
  • 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. Stealing
  • 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. Nonaddition. Subtraction
  • retrench etc. (curtail) Shortness
  • 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) [Motion out of, actively] Ejection
  • 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) [Motion into, actively.] Reception
  • draw off
  • suck the blood of, suck like a leech. retake, resume
  • recover etc. Acquisition.
Adjectives
  • taking etc. v.
  • privative, prehensile
  • predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial
  • lupine, rapacious, raptorial
  • ravenous
  • parasitic. bereft etc. Loss.
Adverbs
  • at one fell swoop.
Phrases
  • give an inch and take an ell.