Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)get off the ground, take offget started or set in motion, used figuratively“the project took a long time to get off the ground”
(v)remove, take, take away, withdraw, take off, pullremove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract“remove a threat”, “remove a wrapper”, “Remove the dirty dishes from the table”, “take the gun from your pocket”, “This machine withdraws heat from the environment”, “Take that weight off me!”, “pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf”