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withtake en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English withtaken, partial calque of earlier Middle English withnimen; equivalent to with- + take.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To rebuke; reprimand.
2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To withhold; retain.
3. (transitive) To receive; accept or withstand; to bear, tolerate, or endure, usually with little to no ill-effect; (often reflexive) To take along; take with.
   • Not desiring to be discovered, we found a fair road close by a wood, withtook ourselves out of it with all haste, and went towards a village. 1961, Pierre Esprit Radisson, Arthur T. Adams, The explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson:
   • "[…] Luckily the general structure withtook the shock and only the ceiling collapsed." 1994, J. P. Donleavy, A Singular Man:
   • […] and if the people of the said cities and towns will not or are not able to maintain them they shall withtake themselves to other towns and cities within the hundred, or to the town where they were born, and shall there continually abide during their life. 1909, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command:
   • Luckily the general structure withtook the shock and only the ceiling collapsed. 1963, James Patrick Donleavy, A Singular Man, page 52:

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