accept

Verb

• be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
  • The cow accepted the bull
    

• make use of or accept for some purpose
  • take a risk
    
  • take an opportunity
    

• receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

• be designed to hold or take
  • This surface will not take the dye
    

• 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
    

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

• 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
    

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

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

• 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
    

• consider or hold as true
  • I cannot accept the dogma of this church
    
  • accept an argument
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  take , live with , swallow , bear , take over , assume , admit , take on , consent , go for , have
• Antonyms: 
  refuse , decline , reject , pass up , turn down