TAKEN OUT Synonyms: 143 Similar and Opposite Words

taken out

verb

past participle of take out

as in unleashed

to find emotional release for he took out his frustrations by splitting a cord of firewood

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in accompanied

to go on a social engagement with she'd like to take the new boy out to the movies sometime

Synonyms & Similar Words

as in removed

to take away from a place or position the airline passenger took his laptop computer out of its carrying case

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

as in murdered

to put to death deliberately the rumor is that the CIA is planning to take him out before he can seize control of the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of taken out But for the first part, a lot of the humanity has been taken out of the process. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Deadline can confirm that Grande’s label is working to get the song taken out of the clip. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 About three-fourths of the water that’s taken out is used for agriculture, growing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 That happened in New York City in 2018, when at least a half dozen city buses were taken out of service after reports of bedbugs crawling on seats. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 Colts special teams coordinator Brian Mason was taken out on the final play of scrimmage in the team’s 13-13 tie with the New England Patriots on Thursday night at Gillette Stadium. — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026 This is to be expected given nearly the entire Iranian leadership being taken out months ago. — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 The bodies were then taken out of the backcountry by a snowcat before being transported to a mortuary in Truckee. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026 The crash victim, identified as a 66-year-old man, was taken out of the woods by the fire department using specialized vehicles and transferred to an ambulance which transported him to Life Star. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for taken out

Verb

That was before Bellinger unleashed an on-the-money rocket in the seventh inning of the series-opener against Boston.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 Aug. 2026
The disaster unleashed deadly flooding, destroying homes, buildings and infrastructure and leaving scores dead.

— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of unleashed

Verb

But Boone removed him from the lineup before the top of the fourth, shifting José Caballero to shortstop and bringing in Amed Rosario to play third base.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
That arrest came roughly one-and-a-half-years removed from Cleveland being arrested for DUI.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of removed

Verb

Lorca was murdered in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War by followers of Francisco Franco, and his body remains undiscovered to this day.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2026
Ideologies held by Kirk and others like him, Miles said, are the reason Black people have been violently murdered.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of murdered

Verb

The voyage produced a 24 percent reduction in fuel consumption, according to measurements released by the maritime energy company.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
After being sedated, the bobcat was later released near Forbes Creek, close to the natural habitat where it was found, police said.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of released

Verb

Neiman’s team dated the snail’s genome duplication to less than a million years ago — incredibly recent in evolutionary terms, but long enough ago for the species to have begun the longer process of adjusting to its heavier genomic load.

— Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
The deeper history comes from dead coral heads, which can be dated using uranium-thorium methods to within a few years, even as far back as 500 years.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of dated

Verb

Among them is the son of Fred Hampton, a senior leader of the Black Panther Party who was assassinated by the FBI in 1969, at the age of 21.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2026
Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of assassinated

Verb

For the same price, fans can purchase a Sean Taylor T-Shirt with the likeness of the former safety in his Redskins uniform before he was tragically slain in 2007.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Amber Gates, the mother of slain inmate Charles Gates, 27, alleges CoreCivic employees failed in their duty to keep prisoners safe.

— Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2026