take sb in
— phrasal verb with take uk/teɪk/us/teɪk/verb took, taken
(CARE FOR)
to take care of someone and provide a place in your home for them:
Several families took in foreign students.
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Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
- attention
- bedside manner
- bring
- care
- care for sb
- domiciliary
- eye
- first-line treatment
- keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
- mind
- minister
- minister to sb
- modality
- nurse
- patch sb/sth up
- referral
- section
- set sb up
- soothe
- tend
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(DECEIVE)
B2 [ often passive ] to cause someone to believe something that is not true, or to trick or deceive someone:
I can't believe she was taken in by him.
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
- worm
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
(POLICE)
UK US bring in If the police take you in, they take you to the police station:
Detectives on the murder inquiry have taken in a new suspect for questioning.
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Arresting & charging
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrest
- assist
- attachment
- charge
- charge sheet
- handcuffs
- hold
- house arrest
- knock
- lag
- Miranda
- nail
- pull
- pull sb in
- run
- run sb in
- the knock at/on the door idiom
- tighten
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