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tak·en up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)adjective

    having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

    "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of taken up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of taken up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of taken up in a Sentence

  1. Margot Vaaderpass:

    That's one of things that I have taken up as a challenge - how can we create a suit that's knitted, the advantage of that is that we can shape the garment, that means that we can produce less waste.

  2. Todd Rosenbluth:

    There's not a lot of whitespace left that isn't being taken up by passive funds or well-established active funds. Unless it's a fund manager starting up his own shop, the only way for most funds to break in is to market a more sophisticated strategy.

  3. Noelle Brown:

    I took it for granted that all I had to do was ask [ for my information ], i didn't realize I was setting off a chain of events that has taken up 20 years of my life.

  4. Norman Loeb:

    It's excess energy that's being taken up by the planet.

  5. Alexander Bortnikov:

    Some of them have taken up the banner of Islamic State, which has led to a sharp increase in the threat of terrorists infiltrating Central Asia.


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  • ہاتھ میں لیاUrdu

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