take in
Meanings
- the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone
- provide with shelter
- fool or hoax;
- suck or take up or in;
- visit for entertainment;
- call for and obtain payment of;
- see or watch;
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs;
- fold up;
- take up mentally;
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages;
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers;
- accept;
- take in, also metaphorically;
- take up as if with a sponge
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly;
- take into one's family;
- make (clothes) smaller;
- "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight"