import vs take away

import

verb
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something). 

  • To mean, signify. 

  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. 

  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system. 

  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade. 

  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen). 

  • To be of importance to (someone or something). 

noun
  • Significance, importance. 

  • The practice of importing. 

  • Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade. 

  • A foreigner playing in a sports league. 

take away

verb
  • To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something. 

  • To subtract or diminish something. 

  • To remove something and put it in a different place. 

  • To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later. 

  • To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent. 

  • To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person. 

  • To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it. 

prep
  • minus 

noun
  • Actions of subtraction or subtracting exercises. 

How often have the words import and take away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )