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Accept

verb

(past & past part. accepted; pres. part. accepting)

1.

Consider or hold as true. "Accept an argument"

2.

Receive willingly something given or offered. Synonyms: have, take. "I won't have this dog in my house!" , "Please accept my present"

3.

Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to. Synonyms: consent, go for. "I go for this resolution"

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

... S. is right in the matter. In the main I myself look, and have from the first look'd, to the bulky democratic torso of the United States even for esthetic and moral attributes of serious account—and refused to aim at or accept anything less. If America is only for the rule and fashion and small typicality of other lands (the rule of the etat-major) it is not the land I take it for, and should to-day feel that my literary aim and ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... Too Lazy to Be Anything but a Lawyer War at the Best Is Terrible We Accepted this War, and Did Not Begin it World Has Never Had a Good Definition of the Word Liberty Would Make War Rather than Let the Nation Survive Would Accept War Rather ...

— Widger's Quotations from Abraham Lincoln's Writings • David Widger

... to accept the money, and offered interest, which she declined. She hurried back, brought in her money, counted it out on his table, and there were just three hundred thalers, six rouleaux of fifty ...

— The Wonders of Prayer - A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer • Various

... Archibald, and that in future scandal she must only be ranked with the Lady Elizabeth Lucy and Madam Lucy Walters, instead of being historically noble among the Clevelands, Portsmouths, and Yarmouths. It is said Miss Granville has the reversion of her coronet; others say, she won't accept the patent. ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... promoters of wars. Understanding between nations is wholly desirable, but the destruction of the national spirit everywhere can only lead to the weakening of all countries where this process takes place and the triumph of the nations who refuse to accept the ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

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