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accept

verb: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

verb: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"

verb: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"

verb: react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"

verb: admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

verb: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"

verb: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"

verb: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"

verb: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

verb: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"

verb: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"