takesomethingfromsomeone
phrasal verbwithtakeverbuk/teɪk/us/teɪk/took|taken
If you take words,information, orideasfrom anotherpersonorpieceofwork, you use ordevelopthem in some way:
Theplotis taken from Shakespeare.
Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- avail
- availyourselfofsomething
- be/go heavy onsomethingidiom
- exhaust
- go through
- gobblesomethingup
- make capital out ofsomethingidiom
- max
- max out
- spare
- spent
- swallow
- tap
- turn over
- turn tosomeone/something
- turn/usesomethingto good accountidiom
- unblock
- underuse