pledge vs take

To make a solemn promise (to do something). 

To deposit something as a security; to pawn. 

To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health. 

To believe, to accept the statements of. 

To accept (zero or more arguments). 

To seize or capture. 

To remove. 

To go. 

To become; to be affected in a specified way. 

To obtain money from, especially by swindling. 

To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it. 

To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). 

To proceed to fill. 

To participate in. 

To let in (water). 

To move into. 

To catch or get possession of (fish or game). 

To assume (a form). 

To go into, through, or along. 

To apply oneself to the study of. 

To deal with. 

To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold. 

To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game. 

To have sex with. 

To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right). 

To obtain for use by payment or lease. 

To experience or feel. 

To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation. 

To carry or lead (something or someone). 

To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage). 

An intensifier. 

To require. 

To fill, to use up (time or space). 

To avail oneself of. 

To escort or conduct (a person). 

To catch or contract (an illness, etc). 

To receive into some relationship. 

To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider. 

To catch; to engage. 

To grasp or grip. 

To transport or carry; to convey to another place. 

To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure). 

To exact. 

To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir). 

To remove or end by death; to kill. 

To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of. 

To cause to change to a specified state or condition. 

To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching. 

To subtract. 

To bind oneself by. 

To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to. 

To partake of (food or drink); to consume. 

To perform (a role). 

To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something). 

To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc). 

To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing. 

To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation). 

To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off. 

To accept and follow (advice, etc). 

To use as a means of transportation. 

To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity. 

To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription. 

To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind. 

To select or choose; to pick. 

To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source. 

To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do. 

To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass. 

To get or accept (something) into one's possession. 

To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. 

To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something). 

To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry. 

To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest. 

To have the intended effect. 

To regard in a specified way. 

To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc). 

To adopt (select) as one's own. 

To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example. 

To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around. 

To defeat (someone or something) in a fight. 

To adhere or be absorbed properly. 

To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc). 

To understand (especially in a specified way). 

To have and use one's recourse to.