Similar words: taken, betaken, take note, partaken, mistaken, take notes, overtaken, take note of. Meaning: adj. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
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181. If she had had to give up riding she might have taken up sailing competitively.
182. Iodine-131 and caesium are more damaging, however. Iodine is actively taken up by the thyroid gland to make hormones.
183. Since that time, various types of hovercraft have appeared and taken up regular service.
184. The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a dinosaur.
185. Watershed flood control engineering system is a complex system consisted of random, fuzzy, unascertainable uncertainties, which has taken up the main part of the flood disaster management.
186. Rice plants adsorbed tricyclazole from soil-water system, and a very remarkable relationship appeared between its amount taken up by rice plants and its concentrations in water (at 0.01 level).
187. The question of public housing should be taken up with the Ministerwhose responsibility it is.
188. Armed police in body armour have taken up positions at major road junctions in the capital, with snipers spotted on buildings along the parade route on Chang'an Avenue.
189. Or when must he laugh, so as to be secure from being taken up as a libeler?
190. Once Mike's taken up a defensive attitude, it's difficult to persuade him that's nothing to be afraid of.
191. Also, I'm aware that the space in my head that used to be taken up with A-level French has been replaced with tactics for playing Halo on the XBox.
192. The first three days of proceedings had been taken up with defense notions to recuse.
193. This subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship.
194. Half the road surface is being taken up to lay new gas pipes.
195. The rest of the space was taken up by cardboard boxes piled right to the ceiling, ten deep.
196. Then, when the car begins to move forward, this toe-in practically disappears as all looseness, or "slippage', in the steering system is taken up."
197. The theme should be taken up with humour, with panache and perhaps with a bit of poetry...
198. ATM technology is kernel in Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network(B-ISDN) and has taken up important place in the communications.
199. The main type of pollutants which caused the accidents include COD, heavy metal ions, at the same time, Phenol, Pentachloro sodium phenolate and ammonia had taken up a considerable proportion too.
200. It may be called the Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park, the Japanese macaques here have taken up one of life's more civilized pleasures: hot tubbing .
201. The question of public traffic should be taken up with the Minister concerned.
202. If you noticed, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
203. Chinese action star Jet Li has taken up Singapore citizenship and bought a property in the city state worth almost $14m, AFP cited Singaporean media as saying.
204. One of the travel guidebook companies, Lonely Planet, has taken up responsible tourism as a cause and devotes a section of their website to instructing their readers on what they can do.
205. Our minds are taken up with far more mundane things.
206. In April, team members began reprocessing all the images taken up to March 25, 2007.
207. She was tasting of the sweets of concealment; she had taken up the line of mystery.
208. Operations are more, but also a tour of duty, that is, a number of samples taken up to the sun. – Could it be that what the rock above the stones and the like do?Sentencedict.com
209. If they are like most kids (in America at least), most of their free time is taken up by the TV or other electronic entertainment.
210. Long-lasting particles of cesium 137 can cycle through an ecosystem for decades, entering plants when they are taken up by root systems and returning to the earth when the plant dies.
More similar words: taken, betaken, take note, partaken, mistaken, take notes, overtaken, take note of, take notice, mistakenly, undertaken, take no notice, take notice of, take no notice of, taken for granted, if I am not mistaken, open up, freshen up, loosen up, smarten up, lighten up, tighten up, prenuptial, take the cake, make a mistake, straighten up, awaken, kraken, shaken, weaken.