1. To admit into a group or community; SYN. admit, take, take on.
2. To give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; SYN. consent, go for.
3. To react favorably to; consider right and proper
4. To consider or hold as true
5. To be designed to hold or take; SYN. take.
6. Said of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
7. To be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
8. To receive willingly something given or offered; SYN. take, have.
9. To tolerate or accommodate oneself to; SYN. swallow.
1. To choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; SYN. follow, espouse.
2. To take a child into one's family; SYN. take in.<br />
3. To take up and practice as one's own; SYN. borrow, take over, take up.
4. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
5. Put into dramatic form
6. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
7. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
1. To take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; SYN. presume, take for granted.
2. To take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; SYN. adopt, take on, take over.
3. To take control of; take as one's right or possession; SYN. usurp, take over, arrogate.
4. To take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; SYN. acquire, adopt, take on, take.
5. To occupy or take on, as of a position or posture; SYN. take, take up.
6. In Christianity: take up someone's soul into heaven
ETYM Pref. em- (intens.) + brace, v. t.
1. To hug, usually with fondness; SYN. hug, bosom, squeeze.
2. To include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; SYN. encompass, comprehend, cover.
1. To consider reasonable or due.
2. To regard something as probable or likely; SYN. anticipate.
3. To look forward to the probably occurrence of; SYN. look, await, wait.
4. To look forward to the birth of a child.
1. To accept as pay; SYN. honour.
2. To bestow honor upon; SYN. honour, reward.
3. To confer honor on; SYN. honour, favor, favour, grace.
1. To accept as pay; SYN. honour.
2. To bestow honor upon; SYN. honour, reward.
3. To confer honor on; SYN. honour, favor, favour, grace.
To receive into the mind and retain.
1. To assume or accept without confirmation or forethought.
2. To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.
To express a supposition; SYN. say.