TAKEN OUT Synonyms: 143 Similar and Opposite Words

taken out

verb

Definition of taken out next

past participle of take out

as in unleashed

to find emotional release for he took out his frustrations by splitting a cord of firewood

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as in accompanied

to go on a social engagement with she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime

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as in removed

to take away from a place or position the airline passenger took his laptop computer out of its carrying case

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as in murdered

to put to death deliberately the rumor is that the CIA is planning to take him out before he can seize control of the country

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Recent Examples of taken out By the time the project was ready to be taken out in 2021, Port and Wiseman were working on Ghosts, which had been picked up to series in March of that year. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 May 2026 The letter also called for FEMA to be taken out from under DHS and restored to a Cabinet-level agency. —

ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 If some are taken out, the mesh still works. —

Ben Tarnoff, Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026 There were also fears the child may have been taken out of the country for potential gender reassignment surgery before reaching puberty. —

Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026 The project is in the nascent stages, and is to be taken out to studios and streamers for presentations by CAA, who represents Bruckheimer, possibly as early as next week. —

Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026 Wouldn’t this character be aghast at the amount of random citizens taken out in these endless firefights? —

Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 Tybee Island has an open container ordinance, so drinks can be taken out onto the beach in to-go cups, but public intoxication laws will also be enforced. —

Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026 He was later taken out of the VIP line to an ambulance via stretcher. —

Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2026

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Frey unleashed his five-pitch arsenal, thwarting the Spartans most of the way.

— Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
But the War on Terror persisted and mutated into nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Syria, which unleashed that darkness in the form of terrorist states and a refugee crisis that spread anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred to Europe, the United States, and beyond.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026