Excerpt and Take

Excerpt

Excerpt verb - Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.

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Take and excerpt are semantically related in extract topic. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Excerpt".

Nearby Words: excerpted, excerpting, excerption

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Excerpt and take are semantically related in extract topic. Sometimes you can use "Excerpt" instead a verb "Take".

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

good	good excerpt	good take
direct	direct excerpt	direct take
original	original excerpt	original take
actual	actual excerpt	actual take
Other adjectives: little, beautiful.

Sir Giles reads an excerpt from the handbook on how one should take care when removing the eyeball so as not to sever the optic nerve, thereby allowing the victim to see everything.

Source: Eye Scream / Comic Books
In a grimmer take than most, in the accompanying material of Watchmen there's an excerpt from Tales of the Black Freighter in which the pirate crew uses half-rotted human heads as ammunition for their cannons.

Source: Abnormal Ammo

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