Place and Take

Place

Place verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Usage example: he carefully placed the flowers in a vase

Take is an antonym for place in topics: order, locate.

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

Take

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

Place is an antonym for take.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

How words are described

good good place good take
best best place best take
exact exact place exact take
similar similar place similar take
Other adjectives: perfect, original, single, popular, actual, real, big, great, little, bad, beautiful, interesting, new, final, odd, next, weird, strange, last, different.

Common collocations

people place people take people
hand place hand take hand
time place time take time
money place money take money
Other words: blame, orders.

Both words in one sentence

  • Comicbook / Brightest Day Atrocitus hired Lobo to attack him in the first place and take a dive, in order to get the others to trust him.
  • Video Game / M.U.G.E.N These practically do nothing but stand in one place and take damage from everything until they die.
  • Video Game / Buck Bumble You must reach the HQ, destroy all enemies before they can do the same with the place and take the bomb to a safe location before it detonates.
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