takes

The word “takes” has 1 syllable: takes

It's pronounced as /teɪks/

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In the thesaurus, “takes” has 658 synonyms and 215 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for takes

OKs
abduct
abide
abides
absorbs
abstract
accept
accepts
accommodate
accommodates
accounts
accredits
accroach
acquiesces
acquire
acquires
acts
adaptations
addresses
admit
admits
adopts
affects
allotments
allowances
allows
allure
annex
annihilates
answers
appoints
apprehend
appropriate
appropriations
arrest
arrogate
ask
asks
assassinates
assume
assumes
attain
attend
attract
back
backlashes
bags
bamboozle
be aware of
be efficacious
be seized
bear
bear with
bears
beat
beats
become popular
begs
behave
behaves
believe
believes
bests
betters
bewitch
bides
bids
bilk
blots out
blows away
blows out
bombs
book
booties
booty
borrow
bounties
brave
breaks
bring
brings off
brook
brooks
buck
bumps off
buries
butchers
buys
call for
calls for
capitulates
caps
capture
carries
carries off
carries out
carry off
cart
carve out
catch
catches
catching
challenges
charm
charter
cherry-picks
choose
chooses
claims
clasp
clasps
clenches
clobbers
clutch
clutches
collar
collect
collections
come down with
comes to grips with
commandeer
commands
commissions
compass
comprehend
con
concludes
conduct
confirms
confiscate
conquers
consider
contain
contains
contracts
controls
convey
convoy
cops
countenances
counter-reactions
counter-responses
counterreactions
counterresponses
cozen
crave
creams
credits
croaks
crushes
cull
culls
cut
cuts
cuts down
deal with
decide on
decimates
deduces
deduct
deem
defeats
defraud
delight
delight in
demand
demands
derive
designates
destroys
devour
directs
discount
dispatches
do
do the trick
does away with
does down
does for
does in
down
draw
draw back
drink
drive
drubs
dupe
earn
earnings
eat
eclipses
effect
elect
elects
eliminate
embraces
encloses
encompasses
ends
endures
enfolds
engage
engineers
enjoins
enjoy
ensnare
entails
enter upon
enters
entertain
entertains
entrap
escort
espouses
euthanatizes
euthanizes
exacts
exceeds
excels
execute
executes
exercise
exert
expect
experience
expropriate
fails
fascinate
feed
feed on
feel
fellowships
fells
ferry
fetch
fiddle
fields
filch
finances
finesses
finishes
fits
fixes
flattens
flimflam
flourishes
follow
function
gain
gain possession
gains
garners
gate
gather
gather up
get
get hold of
gets
gets around
gets off
gets the better of
give access
go
go through
go with
goes
grab
grasp
grasps
grin and bear it
grip
grips
grosses
guide
guides
gull
gun
hack
hacks
handle
handles
handpicks
hang in
hang on
hang tough
hangs on to
harbors
has
has a grip on
haul
haul in
hauls
have
have effect
heel
hire
hold
holding
holds
hoodwink
houses
ices
imagine
imbibe
incloses
include
incomes
infers
influences
ingest
inhale
insists
interpret as
interpretations
involves
jag
jockeys
journey
kickbacks
kills
kills off
knock off
knocks for a loop
knocks off
knocks over
know
lacks
languishes
lay hold of
lays hold of
lead
lease
let in
liberate
licks
lift
like
live with
lives with
look upon
loots
lots
lug
luxuriate in
magnetize
make
makes away with
manages
maneuvers
manipulates
mark
marks
martyrs
massacres
masters
meal
meets
members
micromanages
misappropriate
move
mows
murders
nab
nabs
nail
names
necessitate
necessitates
need
needs
negotiates
nets
neutralizes
nip
nominates
noses out
observe
obtain
obtains
offers
offs
okays
operate
operates
opt for
optate
outdistances
outdoes
outfights
outshines
outstrips
overbears
overcomes
overmatches
overpowers
overtake
overthrows
overtops
overwhelm
overwhelms
pack
pans out
part
partake of
partitions
parts
pay for
payoffs
perceive
percentages
perform
performs
permits
pick
pick up
picks
picks up
pieces
pieces of the action
piggyback
pilot
pinch
pips
play
plays
please
pluck
plunders
pocket
pockets
portions
practice
preempt
prefer
prefers
prehend
preselects
presses
presume
presumes
prevail
proceeds
procure
procures
profits
proportions
pull a fast one
pull in
pulls
purchase
purchases
purloin
put in practice
put up with
puts away
puts down
quests
quotas
ratifies
rations
reach
react
reactions
reacts
reap
rebounds
rebuys
receipts
receive
receives
reckon
recoils
redounds
reflexes
regard
regulates
relish
remove
rent
replies
repurchases
requires
respects
responds
responses
results
return
returns
revenue
revenues
revulsions
ride
ride out
riffs
rip off
rises
routs
rubs out
run off with
runs
salvage
sanctions
schlepp
scores
scrags
seats
sections
secure
secures
see
see as
segments
seize
seizes
select
selects
sense
sequester
serve
sets
sets store by
sets store on
share
shares
shellacs
shoulder
shoulders
sicken with
single out
sinks
skins
skunks
slaughters
slays
slices
smites
smokes
snag
snare
snatch
snatches
snitch
snows under
snuffs
spoils
stand
stand for
stands
stands for
steer
steers
stick it out
sticks out
stipulates
stomach
stomachs
stops
strike
subdues
subjugates
submit to
succeed
succeeds
suffer
suffers
suicides
supports
suppose
supposes
surmounts
surpasses
suspect
sustains
swags
swallow
swallows
sways
sweats out
sweeps
swindle
swings
swipe
tabs
tags
take away
take for a ride
take hold of
take in
take it
take it lying down
take it on the chin
take off
take out
take sick with
takes effect
takes hold
takes out
takings
taps
terminates
think
think of as
thrashes
tolerate
tolerates
tops
tote
toughs it out
tour
transcends
translations
treat
treats
trek
trick
trims
triumph
trounces
truck
trusts
undergo
understands
undertake
unseats
upends
upsets
usher
utilize
vanquishes
variations
versions
wallops
wants
warrants
wastes
waxes
weakens
wears
weather
welcome
welcomes
whacks
whips
wile
wilts
win
win favor
winnings
wins
withers
withstand
work
works
worsens
worsts
yield
yields

Antonyms for takes

abandon
abstain
actions
add
aggregates
animates
avoid
avoids
backfires
banishes
bans
bars
be honest
be immune
behaviors
blackballs
blacklists
bore
botches
bungles
bypasses
cancel
causes
challenges
circumvents
collapses
combats
comes back
composites
compounds
contests
debt
declines
deductions
delivers
denies
deports
depress
destroy
direct
disagree
disallow
disallows
disapproves
disbelieve
disbelieves
discard
discards
discharge
discharges
discontinue
discourage
discredits
disenchant
dislike
dismisses
displease
disputes
disregard
dissuade
distrusts
dodge
dodges
doubts
drop
drops
effects
eludes
entrusts
escapes
evades
exclude
exiles
expels
fail
fails
falls
fights
fire
fizzles
flops
flunks
folds
foozles
forbears
forfeit
forget
free
frees
fumbles
gains
give
give up
gives
gives up
goes down
goes under
halt
hands
hands over
has
hate
heals
hold
holds
holds off
idle
ignore
increase
insert
intrusts
jettisons
keep
lack
leave
let go
liberate
liberates
loose
lose
loss
losses
louses up
lower
maintain
markets
mends
merchandises
merchandizes
misconceive
misdoubts
mishandles
misinterpret
miss
misses
mistrusts
misunderstand
muffs
need
negatives
neglect
nurtures
offer
opposes
ostracizes
ousts
overlook
owns
passes
payment
pools
possesses
prevent
protests
questions
raise
raises
rallies
rebounds
receive
recoups
recovers
recuperates
refuse
refuses
reject
rejects
release
releases
relinquishes
repel
repudiates
repulse
resists
restores
resurrects
resuscitates
retails
return
revives
scamps
sell
sells
shun
snaps back
spend
spurns
stay
stop
subtractions
sums
surrender
suspects
throw away
throws away
throws out
tire
totalities
totals
transfers
transmits
turn away
turn off
turns down
turns over
unfasten
unhands
vends
vetoes
want
washes out
weaken
whole
wholes
withstands

Meanings of takes

noun
1. The or an act of taking.
2. Something that is taken; a haul.
3. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
4. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
5. A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
6. A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
7. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
8. An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
9. A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
10. The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
verb
1. To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
2. To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
3. To remove.
4. To have sex with.
5. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
6. To grasp or grip.
7. To select or choose; to pick.
8. To adopt (select) as one's own.
9. To carry or lead (something or someone).
10. To use as a means of transportation.
11. To visit; to include in a course of travel.
12. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
13. To consume.
14. To experience, undergo, or endure.
15. To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
16. To regard in a specified way.
17. To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
18. To understand (especially in a specified way).
19. To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
20. To believe, to accept the statements of.
21. To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
22. To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
23. To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
24. To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
25. To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
26. To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
27. (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
28. (of a ship) To let in (water).
29. To require.
30. To proceed to fill.
31. To fill, to use up (time or space).
32. To avail oneself of.
33. To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
34. To assume or perform (a form or role).
35. To bind oneself by.
36. To move into.
37. To go into, through, or along.
38. To have and use one's recourse to.
39. To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
40. To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
41. To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
42. To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
43. To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
44. (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
45. To deal with.
46. To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
47. To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
48. To accept as an input to a relation.
49. To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
50. To engage, take hold or have effect.
51. To become; to be affected in a specified way.
52. (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
53. An intensifier.
54. To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
55. (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Example Sentences

She takes her coffee black every morning.
It only takes a few minutes to complete the form online.
He takes his responsibilities seriously and always delivers on time.
The train takes passengers to the city center in less than half an hour.
The doctor takes time to listen to his patients' concerns before prescribing any medication.

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