take out

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Let me take you out for dinner.

I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out.

The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary.

take out a loan;  take out medical insurance;  take out a membership;  take out a patent