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1. Provide with shelter
    
2. Fool or hoax
   - gull, dupe, slang, befool [archaic], cod, fool, put on, put one over, put one across
    
3. Suck or take up or in
   - absorb
    
4. Visit for entertainment
   "take in the sights"
    
5. Call for and obtain payment of
   - collect
    
6. See or watch
   - watch, view, see, catch
    
7. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs
   - receive, invite
    
8. Fold up
   "take in the sails"
   - gather in
    
9. Take up mentally
   - absorb, assimilate, ingest
    
10. Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
    - gain, clear, make, earn, realize, realise [Brit], pull in, bring in
     
11. Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
    - catch, overhear
     
12. Accept
    - take up
     
13. Take in, also metaphorically
    - absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take up
     
14. Take up as if with a sponge
    - sop up, suck in, take up
     
15. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
    - consume, ingest, take, have
     
16. Take into one's family
    - adopt
     
17. Make (clothes) smaller
    "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight"

1. 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