take up

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of TAKE UP

to move from a lower to a higher place or position <please take up the blanket so I can look underneath it>

Synonyms boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, take up, up, uphold, uplift, upraise

Related Words ascend, mount, rise; rear, upend

Near Antonyms descend, dip, fall, pitch, plunge, slip; bear, depress, press, push; sink, submerge

Antonyms drop, lower

to take in (something liquid) through small openings <the soil was so dry that the plant seemed to take up the much-needed water instantly>

Synonyms drink, imbibe, soak (up), sponge, suck (up), take up

Related Words gulp, guzzle, quaff, sip, slurp, swallow, swig, swill

to take for one's own use (something originated by another) <one cluster of fans started chanting the team name of the champions, and the crowd quickly took up the cry>

Synonyms borrow, embrace, espouse, take on, take up

Near Antonyms abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrender; abjure, abnegate, disown; reject, renounce, repudiate, spurn; discard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out

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