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Word before five or ten

We have found the following answers matching the query 'Word before five or ten' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Word before five or ten crossword clue was last seen on July 20 2023 in the popular Wall Street Journal Crossword.

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99%TAKEWord before five or tenWall Street Journal

Definition

Taken.
In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
To draw; to deduce; to derive.
To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.

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