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TAKEN WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taken with mean? 

TAKEN WITH (adjective)
  The adjective TAKEN WITH has 1 sense:

1. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondnessplay

  Familiarity information: TAKEN WITH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAKEN WITH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

Synonyms:

enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with

Context example:

Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)


 Context examples 


So quick and neat and silent was he in all he did, that my father was as taken with him as I was.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Terminology associated with the device events action taken with device codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Device Events Action Taken with Device Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist based on the action taken with respect to the device.

(CDISC SDTM Device Events Action Taken with Device Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A change in the way a drug acts in the body when taken with certain other drugs, herbals, or foods, or when taken with certain medical conditions.

(Drug interaction, NCI Dictionary)

Well, taken with the disappearance of the man’s companions, I should say that they were in some way concerned in the murder and had fled from justice.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013 show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring — the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

This measurement may be taken with a knemometer or calipers.

(Knee to Heel Length Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The observations from which this image was created were taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

We believed, my mother and I, that he and it, with the securities that he had taken with him, were at the bottom of the sea.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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