deglutition &c (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension,
prensation†; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension†; abreption†,
seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal &c
38; abstraction, ademption†; adrolepsy†.
dispossession; deprivation, deprivement†; bereavement; divestment;
disherison†; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction
&c 297.
rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c 791.
resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c 775.
clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c (retention) 781; haul, take, catch;
scramble.
taker, captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate]
subduction [Geol.].
V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket;
receive; accept.
reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c (get) 775; draw.
appropriate, expropriate, impropriate†; assume, possess oneself of;
take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands
on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under
contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.
take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off;
adeem†; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c 791;
ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon;
take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave†.
snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay
violent hands on.
get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast
hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten
upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, 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, stretch forth one's hand.
take from, take away from; disseize†; deduct &c 38; retrench &c
(curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear
from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort;
deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.
oust &c (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate;
sequester, sequestrate; accroach†; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear,
displume†, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the
dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c (suck in) 296; draw
off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
retake, resume; recover &c 775.
Adj. taking &c v.; privative†, prehensile; predaceous, predal†,
predatory, predatorial†; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous;
parasitic.
bereft &c 776.
Adv. at one fell swoop.
Phr. give an inch and take an ell.