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Take in

//teɪk‿ˈɪn// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To receive. transitive

    "The company took in more than forty million euros last year."

  2. 2
    make (clothes) smaller wordnet
  3. 3
    To receive and properly absorb or comprehend. transitive

    "The news is a lot to take in right now."

  4. 4
    take into one's family wordnet
  5. 5
    To enjoy or appreciate. transitive

    "I'm just going to sit on a bench and take in the scenery."

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  1. 6
    take up mentally wordnet
  2. 7
    To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home. transitive

    "take in a stray cat"

  3. 8
    fool or hoax wordnet
  4. 9
    To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee. transitive

    "In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs."

  5. 10
    serve oneself to, or consume regularly wordnet
  6. 11
    To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller. transitive

    "Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist."

  7. 12
    take up as if with a sponge wordnet
  8. 13
    To attend a showing of. transitive

    "take in a show"

  9. 14
    fold up wordnet
  10. 15
    To deceive; to hoodwink.

    "Their grandma lost thousands of dollars because she was taken in by scammers."

  11. 16
    express willingness to have in one's home or environs wordnet
  12. 17
    To tighten (a belaying rope). transitive
  13. 18
    take in, also metaphorically wordnet
  14. 19
    To subscribe to home delivery of. obsolete

    "[James Whiteside:] May I ask what newspaper you take in? [John Jolly:] I take in no newspaper. [James Whiteside:] Well, then, what newspapers do you read? [John Jolly:] I am glad to see any of them."

  15. 20
    accept wordnet
  16. 21
    To reef.

    "The second mate holds on to the main top-gallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, and washes over the forecastle as though the whole ocean had come aboard; when a noise further aft shows that that sail, too, is taking in."

  17. 22
    see or watch wordnet
  18. 23
    To arrest (a person). transitive

    "The police took in the suspect."

  19. 24
    hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers wordnet
  20. 25
    call for and obtain payment of wordnet
  21. 26
    earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages wordnet
  22. 27
    visit for entertainment wordnet
  23. 28
    provide with shelter wordnet
  24. 29
    suck or take up or in wordnet

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