English Words: T

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take a turnverb

Change in direction, tone, or tendency.

take a turn for the worseverb

To start to become worse; to worsen.

take a viewverb

To form an opinion and take action on an issue which carries the risk of professional or legal liability; particularly where there is no obvious course of action.

take a walkverb

To go for a walk.

take a whizverb

To urinate.

take a wrong turn at Albuquerqueverb

To take a wrong turn or miss a turn in a journey, so reaching a place distant from the original goal.

take abackverb

To surprise or shock; to discomfit.

take acrossverb

To go, to proceed.

take actionverb

To act; to act positively and decisively to resolve a problem.

take advantageverb

To profit from a situation deliberately.

take advantage ofverb

To use or make use of.

take afterverb

To resemble (a parent or ancestor) in appearance or habit.

take againstverb

To stop liking or supporting someone; to become unfriendly towards.

take aimverb

To position oneself and/or one's weapon so as to be aimed specifically at a chosen mark or target (which is indicated after 'at')

take airverb

To be divulged; to be made public.

take aloftverb

To successfully fly (an aircraft) into the air.

take an axe toverb

To boldly demolish, delete, or discontinue (something).

take an Lverb

Alternative form of take the L.

take apartverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, apart.

take at advantageverb

To avail oneself of an (often unfair) opportunity against.

take at face valueverb

Accept as presented, without question or further investigation.

take awayverb

To remove something and put it in a different place.

take away fromverb

To subtract a quality from; make something seem not so good or interesting.

take backverb

To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).

take breathverb

To take a breath.

take by stormverb

To capture by means of a sudden, overwhelming attack.

take by surpriseverb

To occur to someone when unexpected; to surprise.

take careverb

To be cautious, careful or prudent.

take care ofverb

To look after, to care for.

take care of businessverb

To successfully perform a task or set of tasks which are very important for the accomplishment of a major objective.

take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselvesproverb

If one takes care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things.

take chargeverb

Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving informal command over a group of people.

take checkverb

To take offence.

take commandverb

Synonym of take control, especially in situations involving a role with formal command over a group of people.

take controlverb

To assume control, to gain power over someone or something.

take coververb

To shelter oneself.

take creditverb

To accept or acknowledge approval, praise, recognition for something, regardless of its merit or worthiness.

take downverb

To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.

take down a notchverb

To cause a person's or group's self-esteem or importance to be decreased.

take effectverb

To become active; to become effective.

take exceptionverb

To take offense; to object or protest.

take fireverb

To catch fire; to begin to burn.

take fiveverb

To take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity.

take flightverb

To begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly

take forverb

To regard as.

take for a rideverb

To deceive someone.

take for a spinverb

To test or try out something, especially an automobile.

take for graniteverb

Eggcorn of take for granted.

take for grantedverb

To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

take French leaveverb

To leave quietly and unnoticed, without asking for permission or informing anyone; to slip out.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter T contains 27,828 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 557 pages, and you are currently viewing page 24. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "T" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.