to take in
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /teɪk ɪn/
:
acoger
- Private schools are not set up to take in special education pupils.
We can say the family is going to take in some lodgers.
- We can say the family is going to take in some lodgers.
- And, and so we took him in, they took him straight into surgery.
- And those doctors took me in for sex determination.
- But it's like, how are we going to take in more people now?
- And he lived a very simple life, never married, fostered a kid who he took in.
- And my mother used to take in every, you know, stray sad story and feed them all the same as me.
- CIA picked him up and brought him to me and or brought him to ours headquarters from division and I took him in.
Examples
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I was frantic. "There's no need to be upset," he said soothingly, taking her in his arms.
Fiction book (1994) -
My mother's sister and her husband took me in as one of their own.
Fiction book (1990) -
We took him in because he had something wrong with his leg.
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We took in one just like him a long time ago, remember?
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She'd nowhere to go, so I took her in.
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We can say the family is going to take in some lodgers.
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I rushed to my mother's side, took her in my arms, and hugged her gently to me.
Fiction book (1997) -
A man, face drawn in grief, halted her, took the sobbing woman in his arms, and drew her away.
Fiction book (1991) -
Together, they have taken in a young runaway, Dinah, a meta-human herself.
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After losing his job, Marcus was grateful when his friends offered to take in him until he found a new place to stay.
Synonyms
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1.3
To look after a person or thing and deal with their needs
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1.3
To look after someone or deal with a problem
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1.6
To greet and welcome someone into a place or group
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrasal verb 'take in' here uses take (to receive/bring) + in (into/within) to mean 'absorb or experience' — as in 'take in the sights' = 'see/absorb the attractions'. The connection is metaphorical and relies on particle-verb usage that is not fully compositional or universally predictable for B1 learners, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Take in (shelter) shows the clear image of opening your home and taking a person 'in' to stay with you. That is why it means 'to allow someone to live or stay with you'.