Word
Receive
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
re-ceive
Definition
- v. t. - To take, as something that is offered, given,
committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money
offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a
letter.
- v. t. - Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind
by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion,
etc.; to embrace.
- v. t. - To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give
credence or acceptance to.
- v. t. - To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into
one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger,
visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
- v. t. - To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have
capacity for; to be able to take in.
- v. t. - To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected
to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to
receive damage.
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