take someone out

take someone out
1)

he asked if he could take her out

Syn:
go out with, escort, partner, accompany, go with; romance; informal date, see, go steady with; dated court, woo
2) informal

the sniper took them all out

Syn:
kill, murder, assassinate, dispatch, execute, finish off, eliminate, exterminate, terminate; informal do in, do away with, bump off, rub out, mow down. literary slay

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