Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
2. Transfer of Property

789. Taking.

   NOUN:TAKING &c. v.; reception (taking in) [See Reception]; deglutition (taking food) [See Food]; appropriation, prehension [chiefly zoöl.], prensation [obs.]; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension [obs.]; abreption [obs.], seizure; abduction, ablation; subtraction (subduction) [See Nonaddition. Deduction]; abstraction, ademption; androlepsia or androlepsy.
  DISPOSSESSION; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disinheritance, disherison; distraint, distress, attachment, execution; sequestration, confiscation; eviction [See Ejection].
  RAPACITY, rapaciousness, extortion, predacity; bloodsucking, vampirism; theft [See Stealing].
  RESUMPTION; reprises [law], reprisal; recovery [See Acquisition].
  CLUTCH, swoop, wrench; grip (retention) [See Retention]; haul, take, catch; scramble.
  TAKER, captor, capturer; extortioner or extortionist; vampire.
   VERB:TAKE, catch, hook, nab [obs. or slang], bag, sack, pocket, put into one’s pocket; receive; accept.
  REAP. crop, cull, pluck; gather (get) [See Acquisition]; draw.
  APPROPRIATE, impropriate [Eng. eccl. law]; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer [colloq.]; lay -, clap- one’s hands on [colloq.]; help oneself to; make free with, dip one’s hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.
  SEIZE, abstract; take -, carry -, bear- -away, – off; adeem [law]; hurry off -, run away- with; abduct; steal [See Stealing]; ravish; pounce -, spring- upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by -storm, – assault; snatch, reave [archaic].
  snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.
  get -, lay -, take -, catch -, lay fast -, take firm- hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grapple, embrace, grip, gripe, clasp, grab [colloq.], make away with, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.
  CATCH AT, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm [colloq.], stretch forth one’s hand.
  DISSEIZE or disseise; take from, take away from; deduct [See Nonaddition. Deduction]; retrench (curtail) [See Shortness]; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one’s grasp; tear -, tear away -, wrench -, wrest -, wring- from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling; oust (eject) [See Ejection]; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume.
  ABSORB (suck in) [See Reception]; draw off; suck, – like a leach, – the blood of; impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, – to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up.
  RETAKE, resume; recover [See Acquisition].
   ADJECTIVE:TAKING &c. v.; privative, prehensile; predacious or predaceous, predal [obs.], predatory, wolfish, lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravening, ravenous; parasitic; all-devouring, all-engulfing.
  bereft [See Loss].
   ADVERB:at one fell swoop.
   QUOTATION:Give an inch and take an ell.