Vocabulary

Form

to take in; to bring in; to adopt (e.g. behaviour); to introduce

verb vt
freq #21

Example sentences

Oxygen is taken into our lungs when we breathe.

I'll take in the washing before it rains.

She took in the washing when it started to rain.

When it began to rain, she told her son to take in the washing.

It looks like rain. You had better take in the washing.

Mother took the clothes off the line in anticipation of rain.