take sth in
(UNDERSTAND)
C2 to understand completely the meaning or importance of something:
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- She was telling me he was dead, and I couldn't take it in.
- It is difficult to take in the scale of the disaster.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- penetrate
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- twig
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(INCLUDE)
UK to include something:
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- extend
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- pack
- package
- plug (sth/sb) into sth
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
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(MONEY)
mainly US US usually take to receive money from sales or as payment for entrance to an event:
(WATCH)
mainly US old-fashioned or humorous to go to watch a film or performance, or to visit a place such as a museum:
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Using the eyes
- before your very eyes idiom
- beheld
- bore
- breathe
- come to sb's attention/notice idiom
- eye
- feast
- gawk
- get a load of that! idiom
- get him, her, you, etc.! idiom
- glance
- keep tabs on sth/sb idiom
- look-see
- observational
- out of/from the corner of your eye idiom
- passer-by
- rest
- sneak
- squint
- visual
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(CLOTHES)
to make a piece of clothing narrower, by changing the position of some of the stitches joining it together:
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Knitting & sewing
- appliqué
- backing
- baste
- bind
- bobbin
- bodkin
- cable stitch
- handknitted
- hem
- knit
- knitter
- knitting
- needle
- seamstress
- sew sth up
- sewing
- sewing machine
- shorten
- spinner
- tack
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(WORK)
to do paid work for other people, such as washing or sewing, in your home:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- stroke
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
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