[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

take in
     v 1: provide with shelter
     2: fool or hoax; "the immigrant was duped because he trusted
        everyone"; "you can't fool me" syn: gull, dupe, slang,
         befool, cod, fool, put on, put one over, put
        one across
     3: suck or take up or in; "a black star absorbs all matter"
        syn: absorb ant: emit
     4: visit for entertainment; "take in the sights"
     5: call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million
        dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
        syn: collect
     6: see or watch; "view a show on television"; "this program
        will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition";
        "catch a show on broadway"; "see a movie" syn: watch, view,
         see, catch
     7: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "the
        community warmly received the refugees" syn: receive, invite
     8: fold up; "take in the sails" syn: gather in
     9: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of
        his tribe" syn: absorb, assimilate, ingest
     10: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as
         salary or wages; "how much do you make a month in your
         new job?"; "she earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger
         brought in lots of money"; "he clears $5,000 each month"
         syn: gain, clear, make, earn, realize, realise,
          pull in, bring in
     11: hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; "we
         overheard the conversation at the next table" syn: catch,
          overhear
     12: accept; "the cloth takes up the liquid" syn: take up
     13: take in, also metaphorically; "the sponge absorbs water
         well"; "she drew strength from the minister's words"
         syn: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck
         up, draw, take up
     14: take up as if with a sponge syn: sop up, suck in, take
         up
     15: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "have another bowl
         of chicken soup"; "i don't take sugar in my coffee"
         syn: consume, ingest, take, have ant: abstain
     16: take into one's family; "they adopted two children from
         nicaragua" syn: adopt
     17: make clothes smaller; "please take in this skirt--i've
         lost weight" ant: let out
see also:
gull dupe slang befool cod fool 
put on put one over put one across absorb emit 
collect watch view see catch 
receive invite gather in assimilate ingest 
gain clear make earn realize 
realise pull in bring in overhear take up 
suck imbibe soak up sop up suck up 
draw suck in take up consume take 
have abstain adopt let out 

[2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

375 moby thesaurus words for "take in":
   abbreviate, abridge, absorb, abstract, accept, accouple,
   accumulate, acquire, admit, adsorb, affect, agglutinate, amass,
   appear, appreciate, apprehend, arrest, articulate, assemble,
   assimilate, assister, associate, assume, attend, bamboozle, band,
   barge in, be admitted, be at, be present at, be with one, beguile,
   behold, betray, blot, blot up, bluff, bob, boil down, bond,
   bracket, break in, breeze in, bridge, bridge over, bring, burst in,
   bust in, cajole, call for, capsulize, capture, carry, catch,
   catch on, catch sight of, cement, chain, cheat on, chemisorb,
   chemosorb, circumvent, clap eyes on, clap together, clip, collar,
   collect, combine, come barging in, come breezing in,
   come busting in, come by, come in, come in for, come to, compass,
   complete, comprehend, compress, comprise, concatenate, conceive,
   condense, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, conjure, connect,
   consume, contain, contract, copulate, count in, couple, cover,
   creep in, crop, cross the threshold, crowd in, curtail, cut,
   cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, deceive, delude,
   derive, derive from, descry, devour, diddle, dig, digest, discern,
   discover, dispatch, dispose of, distinguish, do, dock,
   double-cross, down, drag down, draw, draw from, drink, drink in,
   drink up, drop in, dupe, eat up, edge in, elide, embody, embrace,
   encircle, enclose, encompass, engross, entail, enter, environ,
   envisage, epitomize, espy, extend, eye, fathom, fill, fill in,
   fill out, filter in, flimflam, follow, foreshorten, forestall,
   four-flush, gain, gain admittance, gammon, gape, gather, get,
   get an earful, get around, get away with, get down, get hold of,
   get in, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture,
   give an entree, glimpse, glue, go, go in, go into, go out, go to,
   grab, grasp, gull, have, have an entree, have an in,
   have coming in, have in sight, have it taped, hear, hear of,
   hear tell of, hoax, hocus-pocus, hold, hop in, hornswaggle, humbug,
   imbibe, immit, implicate, imply, include, incorporate, infiltrate,
   ingest, insert, intromit, intrude, involve, irrupt, jam in, join,
   juggle, jump in, ken, knot, know, lay eyes on, lay together,
   lead to, league, learn, let down, let in, lie, link, look at,
   look in, look on, look upon, lump together, make out, marry,
   marshal, mass, master, merge, mobilize, mock, mow, nab, nip,
   notice, number among, observe, obtain, occupy, ogle, osmose,
   outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overhear, overreach,
   pack in, pair, perceive, percolate in, pick out, pick up,
   piece together, pigeon, play one false, poll, pollard, pop in,
   press in, presume, presuppose, prune, pull down, push in, put away,
   put in, put something over, put together, put under arrest, range,
   reach, reach out, read, reap, recap, recapitulate, receive,
   reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, recognize, reduce, require,
   retrench, roll into one, run, run in, savvy, secure, see, seep in,
   seize, seize the meaning, sense, set foot in, shave, shear,
   shorten, show up, sight, sit in, slip in, slurp up, snow, snub,
   soak in, soak up, solder, sorb, span, splice, sponge, spot, spread,
   spy, squeeze in, step in, stick together, straddle, stretch,
   stretch out, string along, stunt, subsume, sum up, summarize,
   surround, swallow, sweep, swill up, synopsize, take, take down,
   take into account, take into consideration, take into custody,
   take on, take over, take prisoner, take up, tape, telescope,
   throw open to, thrust in, thrust out, tie, trick, trim, truncate,
   tuck in, turn up, twig, two-time, understand, unify, unite, view,
   visit, watch, wedge in, weld, witness, work in, yoke

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