take in

The phrase “take in” has 2 syllables: take in

It's pronounced as /teɪk ɪn/


What is synonym and antonym for take in?

In the thesaurus, “take in” has 158 synonyms and 45 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for take in along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for take in

  • absorb
  • accommodate
  • accomplishment
  • admit
  • antic
  • artifice
  • assimilate
  • bamboozle
  • barrack
  • beguile
  • bestow
  • betray
  • bilk
  • billet
  • bivouac
  • bleed
  • bluff
  • board
  • bracket
  • buffalo
  • bunk
  • burn
  • camp
  • caper
  • carry
  • catch
  • chamber
  • cheat
  • chisel
  • compose
  • comprehend
  • comprise
  • con
  • constitute
  • contain
  • cozen
  • deceive
  • deception
  • defraud
  • delude
  • device
  • diddle
  • digest
  • do
  • do a number on
  • dodge
  • domicile
  • double-cross
  • dupe
  • embody
  • embrace
  • encamp
  • encompass
  • ensconce
  • entail
  • escapade
  • euchre
  • fake out
  • feat
  • feint
  • fleece
  • flimflam
  • fool
  • form
  • four-flush
  • frolic
  • funny business
  • gaff
  • gag
  • gambol
  • gammon
  • get
  • gimmick
  • grasp
  • gull
  • harbor
  • have
  • have on
  • hoax
  • hold
  • home
  • hoodwink
  • hornswoggle
  • house
  • humbug
  • hustle
  • imposture
  • include
  • incorporate
  • integrate
  • involve
  • jape
  • jest
  • jig
  • juggle
  • kid
  • lark
  • lead one down the garden path
  • lead one up the garden path
  • lie
  • lodge
  • make
  • maneuver
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • monkeyshine
  • mulct
  • number
  • own
  • perceive
  • ploy
  • possess
  • practical joke
  • pull wool over eyes
  • put on
  • put up
  • put-on
  • quarter
  • receive
  • roof
  • rook
  • room
  • roost
  • ruse
  • savvy
  • secure
  • see
  • shed
  • shelter
  • shenanigan
  • shortchange
  • skin
  • sleight
  • sleight of hand
  • snooker
  • snow
  • soak up
  • spoof
  • sport
  • squeeze
  • stable
  • stick
  • sting
  • stratagem
  • string along
  • stunt
  • subsume
  • subterfuge
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • swindle
  • take
  • tease
  • tent
  • tomfoolery
  • trick
  • wile

Antonyms for take in

  • ban
  • bar
  • debar
  • debunk
  • deny
  • disabuse
  • disclose
  • disenchant
  • disillusion
  • divulge
  • eject
  • eliminate
  • evict
  • except
  • exclude
  • expose
  • failure
  • frankness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • lose
  • misconceive
  • mislay
  • misplace
  • miss out
  • misunderstand
  • omit
  • openness
  • preclude
  • prevent
  • prohibit
  • reality
  • refuse
  • reject
  • reveal
  • rule out
  • show up
  • tell
  • truth
  • truthfulness
  • uncloak
  • uncover
  • undeceive
  • unmask
  • unveil

Meanings of take in

  • verb
    1. To absorb or comprehend.
    2. To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
    3. To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
    4. To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
    5. To attend a showing of.
    6. To deceive; to hoodwink.
    7. To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.).
    8. To subscribe to home delivery of.

Example Sentences

  • As we walked through the city, we stopped to take in the breathtaking view from the top of the hill.
  • The tour guide encouraged us to take in the history of the ancient ruins before us.
  • She needed a moment to take in the shocking news before she could respond.
  • It's important to take in feedback from others to improve our work.
  • He paused to take in the beauty of the sunset, appreciating the colors in the sky.

On this page you'll find 203 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to take in, such as: absorb, accommodate, accomplishment, admit, antic, artifice, assimilate.

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Related Words

eat

  • absorb
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • anger
  • annoy
  • antagonize
  • attack
  • badger
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • banquet
  • bite
  • board
  • bolt
  • bother
  • break bread
  • break down
  • break up
  • breakfast
  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • chafe
  • chew
  • chow down
  • condense
  • consume
  • corrode
  • cram
  • crumble
  • decay
  • decimate
  • decompose
  • destroy
  • devastate
  • devil
  • devour
  • dig in
  • digest
  • dine
  • dine out
  • disappear
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • disintegrate
  • dispatch
  • dispose of
  • disquiet
  • dissipate
  • dissolve
  • distress
  • down
  • drain
  • enflame
  • enrage
  • erode
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • exhaust
  • fall to
  • fare
  • feast
  • feast upon
  • feed
  • fret
  • frost
  • gall
  • get
  • get to
  • glut
  • gnaw
  • gobble up
  • gorge
  • gormandize
  • grate
  • graze
  • gripe
  • gulp
  • gum
  • hagride
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • have a bite
  • have a meal
  • have for
  • heckle
  • incense
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • ingest
  • inhale
  • insult
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • lap
  • lick
  • liquefy
  • lunch
  • madden
  • make pig of oneself
  • masticate
  • melt
  • mess
  • miff
  • munch
  • nag
  • nark
  • nettle
  • nibble
  • nosh
  • nurse
  • offend
  • outrage
  • overeat
  • overfeed
  • partake
  • partake of
  • peck at
  • peeve
  • persecute
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pick
  • picnic
  • pig out
  • pique
  • plague
  • polish off
  • pork out
  • provoke
  • put away
  • put down
  • put out
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • refresh
  • regale
  • relish
  • repast
  • rile
  • roil
  • rot
  • rouse
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • ruin
  • ruminate
  • run through
  • rust
  • savor
  • savour
  • scarf
  • scoff
  • slop
  • snack
  • spill
  • spite
  • squander
  • sup
  • swallow
  • swill
  • take food
  • take in
  • take nourishment
  • taste
  • tease
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vanish
  • vex
  • victual
  • waste
  • waste away
  • wear on
  • wolf
  • worry
  • wreck

fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • craft
  • create
  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
  • devise
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
  • make like
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • misreport
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • retrofit
  • set up
  • shape
  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • traduce
  • trick
  • trump up
  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

gaff

  • accommodation
  • accoutrement
  • appliance
  • apprehend
  • apprehension
  • appropriation
  • bag
  • bamboozle
  • beat
  • beguile
  • betray
  • bilk
  • bitch
  • black box
  • bleed
  • bloomer
  • blooper
  • bluff
  • blunder
  • bobble
  • boner
  • boo boo
  • boo-boo
  • boob
  • booby trap
  • book
  • brace
  • breach
  • brick
  • buffalo
  • bungle
  • burn
  • bust
  • captivity
  • capture
  • catch
  • cheat
  • chisel
  • chouse
  • clanger
  • clinker
  • clip
  • collar
  • commitment
  • con
  • confinement
  • constraint
  • contraption
  • cozen
  • crime
  • crimp
  • deceive
  • defraud
  • delude
  • detain
  • detention
  • device
  • diddle
  • dingbat
  • discourtesy
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do in
  • doodad
  • doohickey
  • double-cross
  • drop
  • dupe
  • error
  • euchre
  • exploit
  • extort
  • failing
  • failure
  • fake out
  • fall
  • false step
  • familiarity
  • fast-talk
  • fault
  • faux pas
  • fiddle
  • fleece
  • flimflam
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foible
  • fool
  • foul-up
  • frailty
  • fumble
  • furnishings
  • gaffe
  • gammon
  • gear
  • get
  • gimcrack
  • gimmick
  • gizmo
  • glom
  • goof
  • goof-up
  • gouge
  • grab
  • grabber
  • gull
  • habiliments
  • have
  • have on
  • heat
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • hook
  • hornswoggle
  • hose
  • howler
  • humbug
  • hustle
  • idiot box
  • implement
  • imprison
  • imprisonment
  • improperness
  • impropriety
  • imprudence
  • inaccuracy
  • incarcerate
  • incarceration
  • incivility
  • indecorum
  • indelicacy
  • indiscretion
  • infraction
  • jail
  • jailing
  • jigger
  • job
  • juggle
  • kick
  • kid
  • lapse
  • lead one down the garden path
  • lead one up the garden path
  • machine
  • machinery
  • means
  • mechanism
  • milk
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • miscomprehension
  • misconception
  • misconstruction
  • miscue
  • misdescription
  • misfire
  • misguide
  • misimpression
  • misinform
  • misinterpretation
  • misjudgment
  • mislead
  • misreading
  • misstatement
  • misstep
  • mistake
  • misunderstanding
  • mitt
  • muff
  • mulct
  • nab
  • nail
  • negligence
  • net
  • nick
  • nip
  • nobble
  • offence
  • offense
  • omission
  • outfit
  • overcharge
  • oversight
  • paraphernalia
  • pick up
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • pluck
  • pratfall
  • preventive custody
  • protective custody
  • provisions
  • pull
  • pull in
  • put on
  • put the arm on
  • put the cuffs on
  • ream
  • restraining
  • rip off
  • rook
  • round up
  • roust
  • run-in
  • screw
  • screwup
  • secure
  • seize
  • sell a bill of goods to
  • sequestering
  • setup
  • shake down
  • short
  • shortchange
  • sidetrack
  • sin
  • skin
  • skunk
  • slip
  • slip of the tongue
  • slipup
  • snafu
  • snag
  • snare
  • snooker
  • snow
  • soak
  • solecism
  • spoof
  • squeeze
  • stick
  • stiff
  • sting
  • string along
  • stuff
  • stumble
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • supplies
  • sweep
  • swindle
  • tab
  • tackle
  • tag
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take prisoner
  • take to the cleaners
  • tease
  • thimblerig
  • thingamajig
  • tools
  • toss in jail
  • transgression
  • trespass
  • trick
  • trip
  • utensils
  • venial sin
  • vice
  • victimize
  • violation
  • whatchamacallit
  • whatsis
  • whosis
  • widget
  • wrench
  • wrest
  • wring

habituate

keep an eye on

  • abide by
  • accomplish
  • accord
  • adhere to
  • administer
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advise
  • aid
  • angel
  • attend
  • attend to
  • audit
  • baby sit
  • baby-sit
  • back
  • bankroll
  • be a source of strength
  • be attentive
  • be consistent with
  • be devoted to
  • be guided by
  • be in charge
  • be in keeping
  • be in the saddle
  • be interested in
  • be on duty
  • be responsible for
  • beam
  • bedog
  • behold
  • boss
  • bring up
  • bulwark
  • buoy up
  • call the play
  • call the shots
  • captain
  • care for
  • case
  • catch
  • cater to
  • chaperon
  • chaperone
  • check
  • check out
  • cherish
  • command
  • comply
  • concentrate
  • concentrate on
  • conduct
  • conform
  • contemplate
  • control
  • convoy
  • copy
  • corral
  • counsel
  • cover
  • cover up
  • crack the whip
  • cradle
  • cultivate
  • deal with
  • defend
  • detect
  • devote oneself
  • dig
  • direct
  • discern
  • discipline
  • discover
  • distinguish
  • do
  • do for
  • do like
  • dog
  • eagle eye
  • eagle-eye
  • emulate
  • encourage
  • ensure
  • escort
  • espy
  • examine
  • eye
  • eyeball
  • father
  • feed
  • fend
  • finance
  • flash
  • focus
  • follow
  • follow suit
  • fortify
  • forward
  • foster
  • fund
  • further
  • gape
  • gawk
  • gaze
  • get a load of
  • get an eyeful of
  • give a leg up
  • give allegiance to
  • give heed to
  • give the once-over
  • glance
  • glare
  • glimpse
  • goggle
  • govern
  • guard
  • handle
  • harbor
  • harmonize
  • have a look-see
  • have charge of
  • hear
  • hearken
  • heed
  • herd
  • hold fast
  • hound
  • humor
  • imitate
  • immunize
  • indulge
  • inoculate
  • inspect
  • irradiate
  • keep
  • keep abreast of
  • keep alive
  • keep in view
  • keep tabs on
  • keep track of
  • keep under surveillance
  • lamp
  • lend an ear
  • listen
  • listen up
  • live up to
  • look
  • look after
  • look at
  • look on
  • lookout
  • maintain
  • make a living
  • make certain
  • make out
  • manage
  • mark
  • match
  • medicate
  • mimic
  • mind
  • mind the store
  • minister
  • minister to
  • mirror
  • model on
  • monitor
  • mother
  • note
  • notice
  • nourish
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • obey
  • observe
  • occupy oneself with
  • overlook
  • oversee
  • pamper
  • patrol
  • pattern oneself upon
  • pay attention
  • pay attention to
  • pay expenses of
  • pay for
  • pay heed
  • peek
  • peep
  • peer
  • perceive
  • perform
  • pick up
  • pick up on
  • pick up the check
  • pipe
  • police
  • preserve
  • preside over
  • promote
  • prop
  • protect
  • provide for
  • pursue
  • put up money for
  • quarterback
  • raise
  • read
  • recognize
  • record
  • reflect
  • regard
  • ride herd on
  • ride shotgun for
  • rubberneck
  • run
  • run the show
  • run things
  • safeguard
  • save
  • scan
  • scope
  • screen
  • scrutinize
  • secure
  • see
  • see after
  • see to
  • serve
  • set up
  • shadow
  • shelter
  • shepherd
  • shield
  • shotgun
  • sight
  • sit
  • sit on top of
  • skipper
  • sponsor
  • spot
  • spy
  • stake
  • stalk
  • stare
  • stiffen
  • stonewall
  • strengthen
  • string along
  • stroke
  • study
  • subsidize
  • succor
  • superintend
  • supervise
  • support
  • surveil
  • survey
  • sustain
  • tag
  • take a gander
  • take after
  • take as an example
  • take care of
  • take charge of
  • take in
  • take notice
  • take pains
  • take under wing
  • tend
  • track
  • trail
  • treat
  • underwrite
  • uphold
  • vaccinate
  • view
  • wait
  • wait on
  • watch
  • watch out for
  • watch over
  • witness

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