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take has 71 distinct synonyms spread across 32 of its 44 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is give.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
“He takes the bus to work”
take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
“Take the case of China”
experience or feel or submit to
“Take a test”
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
“Have another bowl of chicken soup!”
ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
“take a pulse”
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
“the accident claimed three lives”
be seized or affected in a specified way
“take sick”
receive or obtain regularly
“We take the Times every day”
buy, select
“I'll take a pound of that sausage”
have sex with; archaic use
“He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable”
2 of the 44 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for take.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for take come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.