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take on
Overview of verb take-on
The verb take on has 5 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (10) assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take -- (take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables")
2. (6) assume, adopt, take on, take over -- (take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?")
3. (2) undertake, tackle, take on -- (accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task")
4. (1) accept, admit, take, take on -- (admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member")
5. (1) meet, encounter, play, take on -- (contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary")
Antonyms of verb take-on
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb take-on
5 senses of take on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
=> start, take up
Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
=> confront, face up, face
=> set about, go about, approach
=> act, move
Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
=> accept, take, have
=> get, acquire
Sense 5
meet, encounter, play, take on
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb take-on
5 senses of take on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> re-assume
Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> resume
Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
=> rise
Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
=> profess
Sense 5
meet, encounter, play, take on
=> confront, face
=> replay
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb take-on
5 senses of take on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
=> confront, face up, face
Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
=> accept, take, have
Sense 5
meet, encounter, play, take on
'Cause To' of verb take-on
Derived Forms of verb take-on
Domain of verb take-on
Domain Terms of verb take-on
Familiarity of verb take-on
take on used as a verb is common (polysemy count =5)
Sample Sentences of verb take-on
5 senses of take on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
EX: Sam cannot take on Sue
Sense 5
meet, encounter, play, take on
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb take-on
4 of 5 senses of take on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
> take office
=> accede, enter
=> assume, adopt, take on, take over
Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
> confront, face up, face
=> undertake, tackle, take on
Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
> accept, take, have
=> accept, admit, take, take on
=> welcome
=> honor, honour
=> adopt, borrow, take over, take up
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb take-on
Sense 1
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
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Sense 2
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
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Sense 3
undertake, tackle, take on
=> confront, face up, face
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Sense 4
accept, admit, take, take on
=> accept, take, have
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Sense 5
meet, encounter, play, take on
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