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Verb: take in- Provide with shelter
- Fool or hoax
- gull, dupe, slang, befool [archaic], cod, fool, put on, put one over, put one across - Suck or take up or in
- absorb - Visit for entertainment
"take in the sights" - Call for and obtain payment of
- collect - See or watch
- watch, view, see, catch - Express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- receive, invite - Fold up
"take in the sails" - gather in - Take up mentally
- absorb, assimilate, ingest - Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- gain, clear, make, earn, realize, realise [Brit], pull in, bring in - Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch, overhear - Accept
- take up - Take in, also metaphorically
- absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take up - Take up as if with a sponge
- sop up, suck in, take up - Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- consume, ingest, take, have - Take into one's family
- adopt - Make (clothes) smaller
"Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" Noun: take-in teyk in- The act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone
Derived forms: taking in, taken in, take-ins, took in, takes in See also: take Type of: acquire, alter, betray, change, deceit, deceive, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, domiciliate, furl, get, have, hear, house, larn, lead astray, learn, put up, receive, roll up, see, take, vary, visit, watch Antonym: let out |