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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"
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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... Denis talked the matter over. To our surprise, my uncle said that he had had an offer for his farm and had made up his mind to accept it, and that if we moved west he would accompany us. My mother, however was very unwilling to leave Uphill. We had all been born there, and she and all of us were attached ...
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