taking

• Junoesque
• abiding
• absorbing
• accepting
• accommodating
• accounting
• accrediting
• acquiescing
• acquiring
• acting
• addressing
• admitting
• adopting
• adorable
• aesthetic
• aesthetical
• affecting
• agreeable
• allowing
• alluring
• annihilating
• appealing
• appointing
• arresting
• asking
• assassinating
• assuming
• attractive
• bearing
• beating
• beauteous
• beautiful
• beckoning
• begging
• behaving
• believing
• besting
• bettering
• bewitching
• bidding
• biding
• blotting out
• blowing away
• blowing out
• bombing
• bonnie
• bonny
• breaking
• bringing off
• brooking
• bumping off
• burying
• butchering
• buying
• calling for
• capitulating
• capping
• captivating
• carrying
• carrying off
• carrying out
• catching
• challenging
• charming
• cherry-picking
• chocolate-box
• choosing
• claiming
• clasping
• clenching
• clobbering
• clutching
• comely
• coming to grips with
• commanding
• communicative
• concluding
• confirming
• conquering
• contagious
• containing
• contracting
• controlling
• copping
• countenancing
• creaming
• crediting
• croaking
• crushing
• culling
• cunning
• cute
• cutting down
• dainty
• decimating
• deducing
• defeating
• delicate
• delightful
• demanding
• designating
• desirable
• destroying
• directing
• dishy
• dispatching
• doing away with
• doing down
• doing for
• doing in
• dollish
• drop-dead
• drubbing
• eclipsing
• electing
• elegant
• embracing
• enchanting
• enclosing
• encompassing
• enduring
• enfolding
• engaging
• engineering
• enjoining
• entailing
• entering
• entertaining
• enthralling
• enticing
• espousing
• esthetic
• esthetical
• euthanatizing
• euthanizing
• exacting
• exceeding
• excelling
• executing
• expansive
• exquisite
• eye-catching
• failing
• fair
• fascinating
• felling
• fellowshiping
• fellowshipping
• fetching
• fielding
• financing
• finessing
• finishing
• fitting
• fixing
• flamboyant
• flashy
• flattening
• flawless
• flourishing
• foxy
• gaining
• garnering
• getting
• getting around
• getting off
• getting the better of
• glamorous
• glamourous
• glorious
• glossy
• going
• good
• good-looking
• goodly
• gorgeous
• grasping
• gripping
• guiding
• hacking
• handling
• handpicking
• handsome
• hanging on to
• harboring
• having
• having a grip on
• holding
• hot
• housing
• hunky
• icing
• inclosing
• infectious
• inferring
• influencing
• insisting
• interesting
• inviting
• involving
• jockeying
• killing
• killing off
• knocking for a loop
• knocking off
• knocking over
• knockout
• lacking
• languishing
• laying hold of
• licking
• likely
• living with
• looker
• lovely
• lovesome
• luring
• luscious
• magnetic
• magnificent
• making away with
• managing
• maneuvering
• manipulating
• marking
• martyring
• massacring
• mastering
• meeting
• mesmeric
• micromanaging
• mowing
• murdering
• nabbing
• naming
• necessitating
• needing
• negotiating
• neutralizing
• nominating
• nosing out
• nubile
• obtaining
• offering
• offing
• okaying
• operating
• outdistancing
• outdoing
• outfighting
• outshining
• outstripping
• overbearing
• overcoming
• overmatching
• overpowering
• overthrowing
• overtopping
• overwhelming
• pandemic
• panning out
• perfect
• performing
• permitting
• personable
• photogenic
• picking
• picking up
• pipping
• playing
• pleasant
• pleasing
• pocketing
• preferring
• prepossessing
• preselecting
• presentable
• pressing
• presuming
• pretty
• prettyish
• procuring
• provocative
• pulchritudinous
• pulling
• purchasing
• putting away
• putting down
• questing
• radiant
• ratifying
• ravishing
• reacting
• rebuying
• receiving
• redounding
• regulating
• repurchasing
• requiring
• respecting
• resplendent
• responding
• resulting
• routing
• rubbing out
• running
• sanctioning
• scoring
• scragging
• seating
• securing
• seductive
• seemly
• seizing
• selecting
• setting
• setting store by
• setting store on
• sexy
• shellacking
• shouldering
• showstopping
• showy
• sightly
• sinking
• skinning
• skunking
• slaughtering
• slaying
• slick
• smiting
• smoking
• snatching
• snazzy
• snowing under
• snuffing
• splashy
• splendid
• standing
• standing for
• statuesque
• steering
• sticking out
• stipulating
• stomaching
• stopping
• striking
• studly
• stunning
• subduing
• subjugating
• sublime
• succeeding
• suffering
• suiciding
• superb
• supporting
• supposing
• surmounting
• surpassing
• sustaining
• swallowing
• swaying
• sweating out
• sweeping
• sweet
• swinging
• tabbing
• tagging
• taking effect
• taking hold
• taking out
• tantalizing
• tapping
• teasing
• telegenic
• tempting
• terminating
• thrashing
• tolerating
• toothsome
• topping
• toughing it out
• transcending
• transferable
• transmittable
• treating
• trimming
• trouncing
• trusting
• understanding
• unseating
• upending
• upsetting
• vanquishing
• walloping
• wanting
• warranting
• wasting
• waxing
• weakening
• wearing
• welcoming
• well-favored
• whacking
• whipping
• wilting
• winning
• winsome
• withering
• working
• worsening
• worsting
• zingy

• abhorrent
• abominable
• animating
• avoiding
• backfiring
• bad
• banishing
• banning
• barring
• blackballing
• blacklisting
• boring
• botching
• bungling
• bypassing
• challenging
• circumventing
• collapsing
• combating
• combatting
• coming back
• contesting
• declining
• delivering
• denying
• deporting
• disagreeable
• disallowing
• disapproving
• disbelieving
• discarding
• discharging
• discrediting
• disenchanting
• disgusting
• dismissing
• disputing
• distrusting
• dodging
• doubting
• dreadful
• dropping
• eluding
• entrusting
• escaping
• evading
• exiling
• expelling
• failing
• falling
• fighting
• fizzling
• flopping
• flunking
• folding
• foozling
• forbearing
• foul
• freeing
• frightful
• frumpish
• frumpy
• fumbling
• gaining
• ghastly
• giving
• giving up
• going down
• going under
• grotesque
• handing
• handing over
• having
• healing
• hideous
• holding
• holding off
• homely
• horrible
• ill-favored
• intrusting
• jettisoning
• liberating
• loathsome
• lousing up
• marketing
• mending
• merchandising
• merchandizing
• misdoubting
• mishandling
• missing
• mistrusting
• muffing
• nasty
• nauseating
• negativing
• nurturing
• objectionable
• offensive
• opposing
• ostracizing
• ousting
• owning
• passing
• plain
• possessing
• protesting
• questioning
• raising
• rallying
• rebounding
• recouping
• recovering
• recuperating
• refusing
• rejecting
• releasing
• relinquishing
• repellant
• repellent
• repudiating
• repugnant
• repulsive
• resisting
• restoring
• resurrecting
• resuscitating
• retailing
• reviving
• revolting
• scamping
• selling
• shocking
• sickening
• snapping back
• spurning
• suspecting
• terrible
• throwing away
• throwing out
• transferring
• transmitting
• turning down
• turning over
• ugly
• unaesthetic
• unappealing
• unappetizing
• unattractive
• unbeautiful
• unbecoming
• uncomely
• uncute
• unhanding
• unhandsome
• unimposing
• unlovely
• unpleasant
• unpleasing
• unprepossessing
• unpretty
• unshapely
• unsightly
• vending
• vetoing
• vile
• washing out
• withstanding

• 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.
• noun
  1. The act by which something is taken.
  2. A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  3. A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
  4. (in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
• adjective
  1. Alluring; attractive.
  2. Infectious; contagious.

• She is taking a break from her studies to travel abroad.
• The teacher praised him for taking initiative in solving the problem.
• They are taking precautions to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
• He is taking medication to manage his condition effectively.
• The team is taking the lead in implementing new strategies for growth.

abducting

• capturing
• catching
• copping
• crimping
• highjacking
• hijacking
• impressing
• kidnaping
• kidnapping
• making away with
• making off with
• running off with
• seizing
• shanghaiing
• snatching
• spiriting
• stealing
• taking
• waylaying

earning

eating alive

gaining

hacking

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