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Accept   /æksˈɛpt/  /əksˈɛpt/   Listen
Accept

verb
(past & past part. accepted; pres. part. accepting)
1.
Consider or hold as true.  "Accept an argument"  Antonym: reject.
2.
Receive willingly something given or offered.  Synonyms: have, take.  "I won't have this dog in my house!" , "Please accept my present"  Antonym: refuse.
3.
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.  Synonyms: consent, go for.  "I go for this resolution"  Antonym: refuse.
4.
React favorably to; consider right and proper.  "We accept the idea of universal health care"
5.
Admit into a group or community.  Synonyms: admit, take, take on.  "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
6.
Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.  Synonyms: assume, bear, take over.  "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
7.
Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.  Synonyms: live with, swallow.  "I swallowed the insult" , "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
8.
Be designed to hold or take.  Synonym: take.
9.
Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
10.
Make use of or accept for some purpose.  Synonym: take.  "Take an opportunity"
11.
Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal.



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"Accept" Quotes from Famous Books



... have free hearts in them. God sets a man free from his sins by faith in Jesus Christ; but unless that man uses His grace, unless he desires to be free inwardly as well as outwardly—to be free not only from the punishment of his sins, but from the sins themselves; unless he is willing to accept God's offer of freedom, and go boldly to the throne of grace, and there plead his cause with his heavenly Father face to face, without looking to any priest, or saint, or other third person to plead for him; if, in short, a man has not a free spirit ...
— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... how you feel. You'd rather trust him. Well, I would myself. It's the plan I'm going on. We mustn't be too hard on him, must we? Sympathetic steering is what he wants. Fortunately we're both men of the world and can accept the situation with no Puritanical hypocrisies. He's not the first young fellow who's got into ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... old adage: no;—and where, by general fault and error, and the inevitable nemesis of things, the universal kennel is set to diet upon leather; and from its keepers, its 'Liberal Premiers,' or whatever their title is, will accept or expect nothing else, and calls it by the pleasant name of progress, reform, emancipation, abolition-principles, and the like,—I consider the fate of said kennel and of said keepers to be a thing settled. Red republic in Phrygian nightcap, organization ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle

... in a panic. Suppose he accept my tale (thinks I), suppose he invite my sister to his house, and that I bring her. I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind, and may end by disgracing both the lassie and myself. Thereupon I began hastily ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... has not been unobserved. The Indian videttes, stationed on the far-off bluff, see it. See, and furthermore, seem to accept it as a signal—a cue for action. What but this could have caused them to spring upon the backs of their horses, forsake their post of observation, and gallop off to the bivouac of their comrades; which they do, soon as noting that the tenth flash ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid


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