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receive
A	verb
	1	receive
			convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚convert ╚receive
	2	receive, get, find, obtain, incur
			receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
		Category Tree: change ╚receive, get, find, obtain, incur ╚take
	3	receive
			regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚think; believe; consider; conceive ╚see; consider; reckon; view; regard ╚receive
	4	receive
			accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚accept ╚receive
	5	welcome, receive
			bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
		Category Tree: travel; go; move; locomote ╚come; come up ╚address; accost; come up to ╚greet; recognize; recognise ╚welcome, receive
	6	receive
			partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
		Category Tree: consume; ingest; take in; take; have ╚partake; touch ╚receive
	7	receive, take in, invite
			express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"

	8	pick up, receive
			recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
		Category Tree: perceive; comprehend ╚pick up, receive ╚hear
	9	experience, receive, have, get, undergo
			of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

	10	get, receive
			receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison"

	11	receive, have
			get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
		Category Tree: get; acquire ╚receive, have ╚inherit ╚graduate ╚fence ╚accept ╚take in; take up
	12	receive
			have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
		Category Tree: meet; get together ╚celebrate; fete ╚receive
	13	meet, encounter, receive
			experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
		Category Tree: change ╚have; experience ╚meet, encounter, receive

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