Synonyms of taking in

taking in

verb

present participle of take in

1

as in deceiving

to cause to believe what is untrue

a fellow passenger on the cruise completely took me in when he claimed to be the owner of a major software company

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• tricking
• fooling
• sucking in
• having on
• stringing along
• faking out
• kidding
• doing a number on
• teasing
• pulling one's leg
• misleading
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• leading one up the garden path
• gammoning
• juggling
• putting on
• leading one down the garden path
• stinging
• hornswoggling
• humbugging
• duping
• deluding
• misguiding
• snowing
• bluffing
• suckering
• conning
• misinforming
• buffaloing
• burning
• hoaxing
• cheating
• gulling
• having
• cozening
• beguiling
• spoofing
• hoodwinking
• bamboozling
• catching
• gaffing
• snookering
• sticking
• bleeding
• defrauding
• euchring
• mulcting
• chiselling
• rooking
• shortchanging
• swindling
• flimflamming
• fleecing
• hustling
• chiseling
• skinning
• diddling
• squeezing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• revealing
• exposing
• uncovering
• debunking
• disclosing
• undeceiving
• unmasking
• telling
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disabusing
• disillusioning
• disenchanting

2

as in including

to have as part of a whole

this report takes in all the latest information on the subject

Synonyms & Similar Words

• including
• containing
• involving
• encompassing
• carrying
• consisting (of)
• entailing
• numbering
• comprising
• embracing
• comprehending
• subsuming
• receiving
• having
• possessing
• incorporating
• owning
• holding
• admitting
• integrating
• forming
• constituting
• composing
• bracketing
• embodying
• making
• assimilating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• leaving (out)
• excluding
• missing out
• preventing
• omitting
• prohibiting
• refusing
• banning
• precluding
• denying
• barring
• eliminating
• rejecting
• excepting
• ruling out
• losing
• debarring
• misplacing
• mislaying

3

as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter

took in the stray dog

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• accommodating
• lodging
• sheltering
• putting up
• camping
• boarding
• rooming
• roofing
• quartering
• bestowing
• harboring
• billeting
• bunking
• encamping
• domiciling
• chambering
• bivouacking
• homing
• bedding (down)
• shedding
• securing
• stabling
• tenting
• roosting
• ensconcing
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting