TAKEN OUT Synonyms: 143 Similar and Opposite Words

taken out

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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 Meanwhile, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Friday disputed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim a day earlier that Iran's navy was sunk and its air force is in tatters, and that Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles was taken out. —

CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026 Ilia Gruev was taken out of the team on Sunday to make way for Nmecha, but restoring him in the German’s place for a home game against Brentford would not send the right message to the crowd. —

Beren Cross, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026 On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran’s navy was sunk and its air force in tatters, while adding that its ability to produce ballistic missiles had been taken out. —

Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026 That was the case for Treanna Evian, who had her uterus and both ovaries taken out to treat stage 1 ovarian cancer at age 32. —

Erica Sloan, SELF, 20 Mar. 2026 Now people on Fraser’s Ridge are getting taken out by way of bear? —

Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026 And the $250 million the Senate included in the bill was also taken out, leaving the funding to future budget talks between the chambers. —

Ana Goñi-Lessan, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026 Investigators allege those payments were instead taken out of the mail stream, changed and then cashed remotely using mobile deposits tied to accounts in the Houston area. —

Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026 Were the three F-15Es flying so close that they could all be taken out at once? —

Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026

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The surge in crude prices unleashed by the Middle East conflict upends that and piles further pressure on the public finances.

— Ian King, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2026
The loss of books is minor, almost trivial, in light of all the horrors and violence unleashed by this senseless war, but the potential loss of these books is a sad reminder that we’re all affected and implicated in America’s savage flailings.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026