take in vs widen

take in

verb
  • To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller. 

  • To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home. 

  • To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee. 

  • To enjoy or appreciate. 

  • To deceive; to hoodwink. 

  • To tighten (a belaying rope). (Also take up.) 

  • To absorb or comprehend. 

  • To attend a showing of. 

  • To reef. 

widen

verb
  • To let out clothes to a larger size. 

  • To make wide or wider. 

  • To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values. 

  • To broaden or extend in scope or range. 

  • To become wide or wider. 

How often have the words take in and widen occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )