accept
Verb
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subtypes:
- acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize - accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
- adopt, embrace, espouse, sweep up - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- believe - accept as true; take to be true
- receive - accept as true or valid
- approbate - accept (documents) as valid
- reconcile, resign, submit - accept as inevitable
- acknowledge - accept as legally binding and valid
- take a bow - acknowledge praise or accept credit
- abide by, honor, honour, observe, respect - show respect towards
verb group: accept - react favorably to; consider right and proper -
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subtypes:
- give - consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- agree - consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
- settle - accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- contract in - consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use
- allow, countenance, let, permit - consent to, give permission
- buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb, yield - consent reluctantly
- take in charge, undertake - accept as a charge
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verb group: accept - consider or hold as true
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subtypes: profess - receive into a religious order or congregation
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is a type of: take - take into one's possessionsubtypes: carry the can, face the music - accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)same as: take
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subtypes: co-opt - take or assume for one's own usesame as: take
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