Synonyms: take up
Definition: pursue or resume
Usage: take up a matter for consideration
Definition: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
Usage: she embarked upon a new career
Definition: return to a previous location or condition
Usage: The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: fasten on, take up, hook on, seize on, latch on
Definition: adopt
Usage: take up new ideas
Similar words: sweep up, adopt, embrace, espouse
Definition: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Usage: She embraced Catholicism; They adopted the Jewish faith
Synonyms: take in, take up, suck in, sop up
Definition: take up as if with a sponge
Similar words: consume, have, ingest, take, take in
Definition: serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Usage: Have another bowl of chicken soup!; I don't take sugar in my coffee
Synonyms: take up, scoop, scoop out, scoop up, lift out
Definition: take out or up with or as if with a scoop
Usage: scoop the sugar out of the container
Similar words: remove, withdraw, take, take away
Definition: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Usage: 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
Definition: take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Similar words: turn, change state
Definition: undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
Usage: We turned from Socialism to Capitalism; The people turned against the President when he stole the election
Definition: accept
Usage: The cloth takes up the liquid
Definition: get something; come into possession of
Usage: receive payment; receive a gift; receive letters from the front
Synonyms: strike, take, take up, assume
Definition: occupy or take on
Usage: He assumes the lotus position; She took her seat on the stage; We took our seats in the orchestra; She took up her position behind the tree; strike a pose
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right
Synonyms: take over, take up, borrow, adopt
Definition: take up and practice as one's own
Similar words: have, take, accept
Definition: receive willingly something given or offered
Usage: The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter; I won't have this dog in my house!; Please accept my present
Synonyms: take up
Definition: turn one's interest to
Usage: He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
Similar words: turn
Definition: channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
Usage: The pedophile turned to boys for satisfaction; people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium
Synonyms: take up
Definition: take up time or space
Usage: take up the slack