Secure and Take

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Secure verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Take is a synonym for secure in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Secure", when it comes to topics like get, obtain.

Nearby Words: security, secured, securing, securely

Take verb - To get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for.

Usage example: I'll take two cheeseburgers to go, please

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Secure is a synonym for take in get topic. Sometimes you can use "Secure" instead a verb "Take", if it concerns topics such as possession.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

power	secure power	take power
job	secure job	take job
control	secure control	take control
place	secure place	take place
Other words: route, path, money, throne.

But the primary aim of Barbarossa (albeit in the most roundabout and inefficient way possible) and pre-War Soviet planning had been to take and secure the Ukraine, respectively.

Source: World War II / War In Europe And Africa
They needed to secure it intact so that the builders could take it apart to figure out why it didn't work and ensure that the rest of their production run didn't suffer a similar defect.

Source: Series / Mission: Impossible
They take different routes to work every day, make sure they are not followed, Sam is a member in six different gyms (under six different names) and only ever talks about his family with people he trusts and even then only in a secure location like the office, and so on.

Source: Series / NCIS: Los Angeles

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