accept
/əkˈsɛpt/ verb A2- To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- To admit to a place or a group. · The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in. · I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.
- To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to. · I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- To endure patiently. · I accept my punishment.
- To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- To agree to pay.
Plural accept · He/she/it accepts · Past accepted · Past participle accepted · -ing form accepting
Verb forms
- Base form
- accept
- He/she/it
- accepts
- Past
- accepted
- Past participle
- accepted
- -ing form
- accepting
From the library
Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner, which he thought himself obliged to accept.
Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a smile which exalted that infatuated youth straightway into the seventh heaven of delight and caused him to make such fearful errors in his dictation that Mr.
He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was accepted with alacrity.
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