take away
verb
What it means
- verb take out or remove “take out the chicken after adding the vegetables”
- verb take away a part from “His bad manners detract from his good character”
- verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state “Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands”
- verb take from a person or place “We took the abused child away from its parents”
- verb get rid of something abstract “The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage”
- verb buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food “We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook”
- verb remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract “remove a threat”