To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. • To seize or capture. • To catch or get possession of (fish or game). • To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. • To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. • To exact. • To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. • To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given). • To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. • To accept and follow (advice, etc.). • To receive into some relationship. • To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). • To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right). • To remove. • To remove or end by death; to kill. • To subtract. • To have sex with. • To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. • To grasp or grip. • To select or choose; to pick. • To adopt (select) as one's own. • To apply or assign a character option. • To carry or lead (something or someone). • To transport or carry; to convey to another place. • To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. • To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. • To escort or conduct (a person). • To go. • To use as a means of transportation. • To obtain for use by payment or lease. • To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. • To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. • To consume (food or drink). • To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. • To experience or feel. • To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure). • To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage). • To participate in. • To cause to change to a specified state or condition. • To regard in a specified way. • To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind. • To understand (especially in a specified way). • To believe, to accept the statements of. • To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider. • To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something). • To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source. • To catch or contract (an illness, etc.). • To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation). • To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of. • To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.). • To let in (water). • To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome). • To proceed to fill. • To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space). • To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time). • To avail oneself of; to exploit. • To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do. • To assume or perform (a form or role). • To assume (a form). • To perform (a role). • To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.). • To bind oneself by. • To go into, through, or along. • To go or move into. • To have and use one's recourse to. • To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry. • To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing. • To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something). • To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.). • To obtain money from, especially by swindling. • To apply oneself to the study of. • To deal with. • To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example. • To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass. • To accept as an input to a relation. • To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.). • To accept (zero or more arguments). • To buy. • To get or accept (something) into one's possession. • To engage, take hold or have effect. • To look good enough to keep. • To adhere or be absorbed properly. • To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold. • To catch; to engage. • To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people. • To become; to be affected in a specified way. • To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed. • An intensifier. • To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone). • To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit. • To visit; to include in a course of travel. • To portray in a painting. • Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.