take away
Carry off with
Take away means to remove something from a place or person: The waiter took away our plates.
It extends to abstract removal—subtracting numbers, diminishing qualities, or revoking privileges: Nothing can take away from her achievement.
In British English, a takeaway is food purchased to eat elsewhere (American: takeout), and by extension, the main point you're meant to retain: What's the takeaway from this meeting?
- deductSubtract from a total
- subtractRemove from a sum
- discardDeliberately throw out
- stealTake without permission
- removeTake something away
carryout · minus · deprive · drawback · insight · confiscate · lift · shortcoming · realization · lesson · to go · naan · dispossess · fish and chips · conclusion · main point · rescind · revoke
- subtractionminus, subtraction, minus sign, minuend, difference
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- eating phrasesdig in, chow down, bon appetit, eat up, gobble up