take in water

1. 1.

   take in water at the bilge

   “the tanker bilged”

   Synonymsbilge

   Broaderleak

Questions about take in water

What does take in water mean?

take in water means "take in water at the bilge".

What is another word for take in water?

Close synonyms include bilge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take in water a common word?

take in water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.