接受 — meaning in English
jiē shòu
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English meaning
- accept verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
- capitulate verb To stop resisting and agree to the other side's terms; to surrender.
- concede verb To admit, often reluctantly, that something is true.
- condone verb To accept or overlook behaviour that is generally considered wrong.
- undergo verb To experience or go through something, especially a difficult or significant process.
Senses
接受 is used for these senses in English:
- accept (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- capitulate (intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.]
- concede To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- condone (transitive) To allow, accept or permit (something that is considered morally wrong, offensive, or generally disliked).
- cross over (transitive, and, intransitive) To pass from one side or area, physical or abstract, to another.
- take a bow (idiomatic) To accept praise, as performers in a theater at the end of their act.
- undergo (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
- wear off (intransitive) to diminish in effect
accept — full definition
- verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
- verb To acknowledge something as true or as a fact, even if reluctantly.
- verb To approve of and include someone, such as in a group or institution.