take in
Verb
- Provide with shelter (synset 202663091)
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Fool or hoax (synset 200856586)
hyponym: kid, pull the leg of - tell false information to for fun
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Suck or take up or in (synset 202771422)
synonym: absorb
- Visit for entertainment (synset 202498233)
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Call for and obtain payment of (synset 202222955)
hypernym: take - take into one's possessionsynonym: collect
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See or watch (synset 202155378)
hypernym: watch - look attentivelyhyponym:verb group: see - perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
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Express willingness to have in one's home or environs (synset 201472854)
hyponym:
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Fold up (synset 201217350)
hyponym:
- incorporate - unite or merge with something already in existence
- coal - take in coal
synonym: gather in -
Take up mentally (synset 200603650)
hyponym: imbibe - receive into the mind and retain
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Earn on some commercial or business transaction
Earn as salary or wages (synset 202294200)hyponym:- eke out, squeeze out - make by laborious and precarious means
- profit, turn a profit - make a profit; gain money or materially
- rake off - take money from an illegal transaction
- bring home, take home - earn as a salary or wage
- rake in, shovel in - earn large sums of money
- gross - earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
- bear, pay, yield - bring in
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Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers (synset 202193614)
entail: listen - hear with intentionhypernym: hear - perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
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Accept (synset 201543626)
hyponym: fuel - take in fuel, as of a shipsynonym: take up
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Take in, also metaphorically (synset 201541851)
hyponym:
- Take up as if with a sponge (synset 201200618)
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Serve oneself to, or consume regularly (synset 201159300)
hyponym:
- cannibalise, cannibalize - eat human flesh
- habituate, use - take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- eat - eat a meal; take a meal
- eat - take in solid food
- drink, imbibe - take in liquids
- booze, drink, fuddle, hit the bottle - consume alcohol
- partake, touch - consume
- eat, feed - take in food; used of animals only
- fill, replete, sate, satiate - fill to satisfaction
- sample, taste, try, try out - take a sample of
- sop up, suck in, take in, take up - take up as if with a sponge
- sup - take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
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Take into one's family (synset 200414120)
hypernym: take - take into one's possessionsynonym: adopt
- Make (clothes) smaller (synset 200304881)
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