Lost
Lost adjective - No longer possessed.
Taken in and lost are semantically related. in distracted topic. In some cases you can use "Taken in" instead an adjective "Lost".
Nearby Word: losing
Taken in
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- He was abducted by an Evil Chancellor, lost in the middle of a naval battle between the Chancellor's forces and the royal navy, and then was taken in by a fisherman.
Source: Lost Orphaned Royalty - Also, in Interesting Times, Rincewind was nearly taken in by a tribe of woman warriors who lost their menfolk to a very specific plague.
Source: Gender Rarity Value - Shazam provides a variant: after Billy reunites with his long-lost twin sister Mary, he's taken in by her adoptive parents.
Source: Staying with Friends
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Lost & Taken in. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lost/taken_in>.
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