Verb

(head)

(undertake)

Verb

(label) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.

(label) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

(label) To overtake on the wrong side.

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To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.

*, Bk.VII:

*:"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake ."

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:And he was not right fat, I undertake .

* (1665-1728)

*:I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.

To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.

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*:there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras // So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue

(label) To assume, as a character; to take on.

:(Shakespeare)

(label) To engage with; to attack.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.

(label) To have knowledge of; to hear.

:(Spenser)

(label) To have or take charge of.

*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

*:Keep well those that ye undertake .

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:who undertakes you to your end

Verb

(head)

(take)

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}