House
House verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.
Usage example: some of the freshmen were temporarily housed in local motels while the new dorm was being finished
Take in is a synonym for house in accommodate topic. In some cases you can use "Take in" instead a verb "House", when it comes to topics like lodge.
Take in
Take in verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.
Usage example: took in the stray dog
Both terms in one sentence
- In some states, it is a felony to take in a runaway child... but not if they've been kicked out of the house.
Source: Staying with Friends -
In the Ruby Gloom episode "Bad Hare Day" Ruby and friends take in an adorable rabbit who it turns out was feigning sickness to get into their house and steal their belongings.
Source: Troublemaking New Pet -
On Mad Men, when the Drapers take in Betty's semi-senile WWI veteran father, Don comes home one day to find he's peeled all the potatoes in the house thinking he was on KP duty.
Source: Peeling Potatoes
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