receive
/ɹɪˈsiv/ verb A2- To be given, sent, or paid something. · He received many presents for his birthday.
- To take, as something that is offered; to accept. · He had the offer of employment, but he would not receive it.
- To take goods knowing them to be stolen.
- To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.
- To incur (an injury). · I received a bloody nose from the collision.
- To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- To be in a position to hit back a service.
Plural receive · He/she/it receives · Past received · Past participle received · -ing form receiving
Verb forms
- Base form
- receive
- He/she/it
- receives
- Past
- received
- Past participle
- received
- -ing form
- receiving
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The next day a person with red hands and a blue polka-dot necktie, who called himself Kelly, called at Anthony Rockwall’s house, and was at once received in the library.
Rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt.
“You look awfully nice,” said Diana, who having just received a compliment from one of her cousins, felt that she ought to pass it on.
I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridgepole.
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