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taken

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tak·en  (tkn)
v.
Past participle of take.
taken
Verb
the past participle of take
Adjective
taken with enthusiastically impressed by
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Adj.1.taken - understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation"
interpreted
understood - fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation; "the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear"
2.taken - be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill"; "couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk"
affected - acted upon; influenced


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Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame Defarge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the building.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
The child was being taken care of, and would very likely be happy, as people in humble stations often were-- happier, perhaps, than those brought up in luxury.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
And firstly, if it be not entirely new, but is, as it were, a member of a state which, taken collectively, may be called composite, the changes arise chiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is in all new principalities; for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.
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