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take away is a verb meaning "remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state". It carries 7 recorded senses.
remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
“Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands”
“The car carried us off to the meeting”
“I'll take you away on a holiday”
“I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry”
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
“remove a threat”
“remove a wrapper”
“Remove the dirty dishes from the table”
“take the gun from your pocket”
“This machine withdraws heat from the environment”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for take away come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.