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Take in

verb

1.

Provide with shelter.

2.

Fool or hoax. Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang. "You can't fool me!"

3.

Suck or take up or in. Synonym: absorb. Antonym: emit.

4.

Visit for entertainment.

5.

Call for and obtain payment of. Synonym: collect. "He collected the rent"

6.

See or watch. Synonyms: catch, see, view, watch. "This program will be seen all over the world" , "View an exhibition" , "Catch a show on Broadway" , "See a movie"

7.

Express willingness to have in one's home or environs. Synonyms: invite, receive.

8.

Fold up. Synonym: gather in.

9.

Take up mentally. Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, ingest.

10.

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages. Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize. "She earns a lot in her new job" , "This merger brought in lots of money" , "He clears $5,000 each month"

11.

Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers. Synonyms: catch, overhear.

12.

Accept. Synonym: take up.

13.

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

14.

Take up as if with a sponge. Synonyms: sop up, suck in, take up.

15.

Serve oneself to, or consume regularly. Synonyms: consume, have, ingest, take. "I don't take sugar in my coffee" Antonym: abstain.

16.

Take into one's family. Synonym: adopt.

17.

Make (clothes) smaller. Antonym: let out.

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"Take in" Quotes from Famous Books

... published in the magazine. Since then, I have taken heart to write a good many trifling pieces. Now, I am regularly paid for them. Altogether, I am well off, when I tell my income on the fingers of my left hand, I pass the third finger and take in the fourth ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... ascribe to inattention the delay which has occurred in my answer to your kind and interesting letter. Much more, I beg you not for a moment to entertain a doubt about the interest which I take in your writings, or the exertions which I shall ever make to promote their sale and popularity.... ...

— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles

... wishes gratified, when a gentleman from the shore offered to give us a trip round in one of the Company's schooners to the West Falklands, where she was going to procure cattle. As the ship was to remain here some days to have one or two slight defects made good, and to take in a supply of beef, fresh and salt, Captain Frankland allowed us to accept the offer, Mr Brand going to look after us. Away dashed the little schooner, the Sword-Fish, having a fine fresh breeze, with as merry a party ...

— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston

... she was at the head of his dominions. In her territory there was a man called Alfvine, who was a great champion and single-combat man. He had paid his addresses to her; but she gave for answer, that she herself would choose whom of the men in her dominions she would take in marriage; and on that account the Thing was assembled, that she might choose a husband. Alfvine came there dressed out in his best clothes, and there were many well-dressed men at the meeting. Olaf ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... dissociated from world-like conduct and skill in affairs. We have now become familiar with a class of men who, while cultivating even the more flowery fields of the Muses, are not on that account the less distinguished in their professional walks, or by the active part they take in the great practical movements of the age. The public, which does not readily admit of two ideas respecting any one man, is apt to lose sight of the literary in the worldly merit; but the former does not the less ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 - Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 • Various

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