take up

The phrase “take up” has 2 syllables: take up

It's pronounced as /teɪk ʌp/


What is synonym and antonym for take up?

In the thesaurus, “take up” has 89 synonyms and 45 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for take up along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for take up

  • absorb
  • adopt
  • affect
  • appropriate
  • arrogate
  • ascend
  • assimilate
  • assume
  • become involved in
  • boost
  • borrow
  • bring up
  • carry on
  • cherish
  • commence
  • continue
  • copy
  • crane
  • cultivate
  • domesticate
  • drink
  • elevate
  • embrace
  • engage in
  • enter
  • espouse
  • follow
  • follow through
  • foster
  • get off
  • go on
  • gulp
  • guzzle
  • heave
  • heed
  • heft
  • heighten
  • hike
  • hoist
  • honor
  • imbibe
  • imitate
  • incorporate
  • initiate
  • kick off
  • lift
  • mount
  • naturalize
  • nurture
  • open
  • pick up
  • pick up on
  • pretend
  • prize
  • proceed
  • put on
  • quaff
  • quote
  • raise
  • rear
  • recommence
  • renew
  • reopen
  • restart
  • resume
  • rise
  • set to
  • simulate
  • sip
  • slurp
  • sponge
  • start
  • swallow
  • swig
  • swill
  • tackle
  • take on
  • take over
  • tee off
  • treasure
  • undertake
  • up
  • upend
  • uphold
  • uplift
  • upraise
  • use
  • usurp
  • utilize

Antonyms for take up

  • abandon
  • abjure
  • abnegate
  • abstain
  • bear
  • cease
  • close
  • complete
  • conclude
  • depress
  • descend
  • dip
  • discard
  • disown
  • drop
  • end
  • exclude
  • fall
  • finish
  • forget
  • forsake
  • give up
  • halt
  • jettison
  • junk
  • leave
  • lower
  • neglect
  • pitch
  • plunge
  • press
  • push
  • reject
  • release
  • relinquish
  • renounce
  • repudiate
  • sink
  • slip
  • spurn
  • stop
  • submerge
  • surrender
  • throw away
  • throw out

Meanings of take up

  • verb
    1. To pick up.
    2. To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.
    3. To address (an issue).
    4. To occupy; to consume (space or time).
    5. To shorten by hemming.
    6. To remove the surface or bed of a road.
    7. (with 'on') To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.
    8. To resume.
    9. To implement, to employ, to put into use.
  • noun
    1. The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
    2. (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
    3. Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).

Example Sentences

  • She decided to take up painting as a hobby after retiring from her job.
  • The school offers various clubs for students to take up interests outside of academics.
  • He plans to take up jogging to improve his fitness levels.
  • They encouraged him to take up the offer to study abroad for a semester.
  • After attending a cooking class, she was inspired to take up cooking as a new skill.

On this page you'll find 134 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to take up, such as: abandon, abjure, abnegate, absorb, abstain, adopt, affect.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

immerse

  • absorb
  • allure
  • asperse
  • attract
  • baptize
  • bathe
  • beguile
  • bemuse
  • bewitch
  • bury
  • busy
  • captivate
  • catch up
  • charm
  • christen
  • dip
  • distract
  • dive
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • drown
  • duck
  • dunk
  • enchant
  • engage
  • engross
  • enthral
  • enthrall
  • enwrap
  • fascinate
  • flood
  • grip
  • hog
  • hypnotize
  • interest
  • intrigue
  • involve
  • merge
  • mesmerize
  • moisten
  • monopolize
  • obsess
  • occupy
  • plunge
  • preoccupy
  • saturate
  • sink
  • slop
  • soak
  • sop
  • souse
  • sprinkle
  • steep
  • submerge
  • submerse
  • take up
  • thrust
  • wet

ventilate

  • advertise
  • air
  • announce
  • bring into the open
  • bring up
  • broach
  • broadcast
  • chime in
  • circulate
  • communicate
  • convey
  • debate
  • declare
  • deliberate
  • describe
  • discourse
  • discuss
  • disseminate
  • enounce
  • enunciate
  • examine
  • expound
  • express
  • free
  • give
  • give air to
  • go into
  • introduce
  • look
  • moot
  • offer
  • proclaim
  • publish
  • put
  • put across
  • put forth
  • put over
  • raise
  • say
  • scrutinize
  • sift
  • sound
  • sound off
  • speak out
  • speak up
  • state
  • submit
  • take up
  • talk about
  • talk of
  • talk over
  • thresh out
  • vent
  • verbalize
  • voice
  • write
  • write up

tackle

  • accept
  • accessories
  • accouterment
  • accouterments
  • accoutrements
  • address
  • apparatus
  • apparel
  • appliance
  • appliances
  • apply oneself
  • approach
  • appurtenances
  • armamentarium
  • armory
  • arsenal
  • assets
  • attachments
  • attack
  • attempt
  • attire
  • baggage
  • bang away at
  • battery
  • begin
  • belongings
  • block
  • bring down
  • bring to the ground
  • catch
  • challenge
  • clutch
  • come to grips with
  • confront
  • deal with
  • devote oneself to
  • down
  • embark upon
  • engage in
  • equipment
  • essay
  • face
  • facilities
  • fittings
  • gear
  • give a try
  • give a whirl
  • go at
  • go for it
  • goods
  • grapple
  • grasp
  • habiliments
  • halt
  • hardware
  • have at
  • hook
  • impedimenta
  • implements
  • instruments
  • intercept
  • kit
  • launch
  • light into
  • line
  • machinery
  • make a run at
  • materiel
  • nail
  • outfit
  • paraphernalia
  • pitch in
  • pitch into
  • pursue
  • put the freeze on
  • raiment
  • resources
  • rig
  • rigging
  • sack
  • sail into
  • seize
  • set about
  • smear
  • square off
  • start the ball rolling
  • stop
  • stuff
  • take
  • take a shot at
  • take hold of
  • take in hand
  • take on
  • take up
  • tear into
  • throw
  • throw down
  • tools
  • trappings
  • try
  • try on for size
  • turn to
  • undertake
  • upset
  • work on

takes on

  • absorbs
  • acquire
  • add
  • address oneself to
  • adopt
  • adopts
  • advances
  • affects
  • agree to do
  • annex
  • append
  • apprentices
  • appropriates
  • arrogates
  • assimilates
  • assumes
  • attack
  • attempt
  • battle
  • battles
  • become
  • begin
  • borrows
  • brave
  • brings up
  • buck
  • call out
  • cherishes
  • come to have
  • commence
  • confront
  • contend
  • contends
  • contest
  • contracts
  • copies
  • cultivates
  • dare
  • defy
  • denounce
  • develop
  • dispute
  • domesticates
  • embrace
  • embraces
  • employ
  • employs
  • emulates
  • encounter
  • encounters
  • endeavor
  • engage
  • engages
  • enlist
  • enlists
  • enroll
  • espouse
  • espouses
  • face
  • face off
  • faces
  • fees
  • fight
  • fights
  • follows
  • fosters
  • go eyeball to eyeball with
  • go one on one with
  • go toe to toe with
  • go up against
  • handle
  • hang in
  • have a go at
  • headhunts
  • heeds
  • hire
  • hires
  • honors
  • imitates
  • incorporates
  • insist upon
  • investigate
  • invite competition
  • jobs
  • launch
  • lays on
  • make a stand
  • match
  • meet
  • meets
  • naturalizes
  • nurtures
  • object to
  • oppose
  • opposes
  • partners
  • pays
  • picks up on
  • pit
  • places
  • pretends
  • prizes
  • promotes
  • put on
  • puts on
  • question
  • quotes
  • raises
  • rears
  • recruits
  • reemploys
  • reengages
  • rehires
  • retain
  • retains
  • rivals
  • scouts
  • set about
  • simulates
  • stand up to
  • subcontracts
  • tackle
  • take in hand
  • take up
  • take upon oneself
  • takes over
  • takes up
  • throw down the gauntlet
  • treasures
  • try
  • turn
  • undertake
  • upgrades
  • uses
  • usurps
  • utilizes
  • venture
  • vie

launch

  • adopt
  • advent
  • alpha
  • appearance
  • arrange
  • arrival
  • ascent
  • author
  • barrage
  • baseline
  • begin
  • beginning
  • birth
  • blast off
  • blastoff
  • bombard
  • bow
  • bowl
  • break the ice
  • break the seal
  • buck
  • bung
  • cast
  • catapult
  • childhood
  • chuck
  • commence
  • commencement
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cradle
  • create
  • creation
  • dart
  • dash
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • develop
  • devise
  • discharge
  • dispatch
  • drawing board
  • drive
  • eject
  • embark upon
  • embrace
  • emergence
  • endow
  • enlarge
  • establish
  • expand
  • fabricate
  • father
  • finance
  • fire
  • first base
  • fling
  • flip
  • found
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • fund
  • generate
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get going
  • get off
  • get show on road
  • get to
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • ground zero
  • gun
  • heave
  • hook
  • hurl
  • hurtle
  • impel
  • inaugurate
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initiate
  • initiation
  • innovate
  • instigate
  • institute
  • institution
  • introduce
  • invent
  • jump
  • kick off
  • kickoff
  • lance
  • lead off
  • let fly
  • lift off
  • liftoff
  • lob
  • loft
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • morning
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • onset
  • open
  • opening
  • organize
  • origin
  • originate
  • origination
  • outset
  • pass
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pioneer
  • pitch
  • plant
  • precipitate
  • produce
  • project
  • propel
  • put up
  • refound
  • reinitiate
  • reinstitute
  • relaunch
  • rifle
  • roll
  • root
  • seedbed
  • send forth
  • set about
  • set afloat
  • set going
  • set in motion
  • set up
  • shoot
  • sling
  • source
  • spawn
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • start ball rolling
  • subsidize
  • systematize
  • systemize
  • take on
  • take up
  • takeoff
  • threshold
  • throw
  • thrust
  • toss
  • usher in
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

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