Definition of "take" []

• To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially: (verb-transitive)
• To capture physically; seize: take an enemy fortress. (verb-transitive)
• To seize with authority; confiscate. (verb-transitive)
• To kill, snare, or trap (fish or game, for example). (verb-transitive)
• Sports & Games To acquire in a game or competition; win: took the crown in horseracing. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The failure of the US to take seriously what’s going on in Darfur is another face of racism – let those folks “take care of their own."
• "Many of them applied to me my parents threaten to take my PC out of my room..take the Internet Modem etc..lol..yeah I love WoW and its Bloody addictive, But yeah still have a social life."
• "On finding he has fairly grinned himself into your good graces, he formally prepares to take leave, endeavouring at the same time to _take_ likewise what you are probably less willing to part withal -- namely, a portion of your cash."