TO TAKE AWAY

Definition: TO TAKE AWAY

TO TAKE AWAY

1. To carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.'' --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TAKE AWAY

This so-called new religion is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants, designed to take away the money of fools. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

The government will come into your house, and they will try to take away your alien pet. (I Love the '80s; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

As Alzheimer's disease spreads through the cerebral cortex, it begins to take away language. (references)

At this point, AD begins to take away language skills and changes a person's ability to make judgments. (references)

Business

In the van segment, GM's Opel Zafira managed to take away sales from the other two large German competitors, the VW Sharan and Ford Galaxy. (references)

Economic History

Eq. Guinea

Senior government officials have extorted money from foreign companies operating in Equatorial Guinea in the past, threatening to take away logging concessions, for example. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

He instructed the personnel that any act that attempted to take away the dignity of those detained should be proscribed, whatever the reasons for their detention. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

جَرّدَ (rob). (various references)

Danish

hindre udsigten (to obstruct the view, to take away the view). (various references)

Dutch

zicht ontnemen (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), zicht benemen (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), zicht belemmeren (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), uitzicht ontnemen (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), uitzicht benemen (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), uitzicht belemmeren (to obstruct the view, to take away the view). (various references)

French

obstruer la vue (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), gêner la vue (to obstruct the view, to take away the view), bloquer la vue (to obstruct the view, to take away the view). (various references)

German

wegnehmen (absorb, abstract, block out, detach, get rid off, keep off, move, remove, shift, take, take away, take off, take out, withdraw, withdrawn). (various references)

Greek 

εμποδίζω τη θέα (to obstruct the view, to take away the view). (various references)

Hungarian

magával visz (to make away with, to take along), levon (deduct, detract, subtract, take away, to deduct, to impress, to recoup, to subtract), elvisz (carry away, carry off, lead off, take away, to bring round, to carry, to carry away, to check out, to take off, to take out, to take over), eltesz (put aside, put away, put down, set aside, to conserve, to pigeonhole, to put away, to put down, to stow, to tuck away), eltüntet (clear away, cover up, hide, take away, to charm away, to conjure away, to remove, to secrete, to spirit away, to spirit off), elsikkaszt (defraud, to embezzle, to misappropriate, to scrounge, to tamper with sg). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

除ける (to dislodge, to put something out of the way, to remove), 退ける (to dislodge, to drive away, to put something out of the way, to reject, to remove, to repel, to repulse), 連れ去る , 持ち去る (to carry away), 捲き揚�'る (to roll up), 取り除く (to remove, to set apart), 巻き上�'る (to blow up, to heave up, to hoist, to roll up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まきあ�'る (to blow up, to heave up, to hoist, to roll up), のける (to dislodge, to put something out of the way, to remove), どける (to dislodge, to put something out of the way, to remove), つれさる, もちさる (to carry away), とりのぞく (to remove, to set apart). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay aketay awayay

abstuleris, abstuli, abstulit, abstulo, demo, deporto. (various references)

spayeite. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: takeaway.

-4 letters: tweaky.

-5 letters: awake, awoke, tokay, tweak.

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