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taken
/ ˈٱɪə /
verb
- the past participle of take 1
adjective
- postpositivefoll bywith enthusiastically impressed (by); infatuated (with)
Idioms and Phrases
- taken with, charmed or captivated by:
He was quite taken with your niece.
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Example Sentences
Antonelli has taken a steady approach to the start of his career but had looked sure-footed and accomplished from the start of practice and carried that form into qualifying.
The party has also won control of Doncaster council from Labour, and taken control in Durham, where Labour was the largest party.
Co-op had previously said that it had taken "proactive measures" to fend off hackers and that it was only having a "small impact" on its operations.
Rory McIlroy was already one of the world's biggest sports stars, but his dramatic Masters victory at Augusta National has taken him to a whole new level.
A wedge of wood was taken as a "trophy" and photographed hours later alongside a chainsaw in the booth of Mr Graham's car, prosecutors have said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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