English - English (Wordnet) dictionary
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Verb
- take up, as of debts or payments
- absorb the costs for something
- take up and practice as one's own
- do over
- They would like to take it over again
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- She agreed to bear the responsibility
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- When will the new President assume office?
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
- She seized control of the throne after her husband died