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accept
A	verb
	1	accept, live with, swallow
			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 idiosyncracies"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept; consent; go for ╚permit; allow; let; countenance ╚digest; endure; stick out; stomach; bear; stand; tolerate; support; brook; abide; suffer; put up ╚accept, live with, swallow
	2	accept
			consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚accept ╚take a bow ╚acknowledge ╚resign; reconcile; submit ╚approbate ╚receive ╚believe ╚espouse; embrace; adopt; sweep up ╚acknowledge; recognize; recognise; know
	3	accept
			be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept
	4	accept
			react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept
	5	accept, consent, go for
			give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept, consent, go for ╚undertake; take in charge ╚yield; give in; succumb; knuckle under; buckle under ╚permit; allow; let; countenance ╚contract in ╚settle ╚agree ╚give
	6	take, accept
			make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"

	7	accept
			of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
		Category Tree: get; acquire ╚receive; have ╚accept
	8	accept, take, have
			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"
		Category Tree: get; acquire ╚accept, take, have ╚adopt; borrow; take over; take up ╚honor; honour ╚welcome ╚accept; admit; take; take on
	9	accept, admit, take, take on
			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"
		Category Tree: get; acquire ╚accept; take; have ╚accept, admit, take, take on ╚profess
	10	bear, take over, accept, assume
			take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
		Category Tree: take ╚bear, take over, accept, assume ╚face the music; carry-the can
	11	accept, take
			be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"
		Category Tree: be ╚accept, take

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