Annehmen — meaning in English

English meaning

• accept verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
• adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
• agree verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
• assume verb To accept something as true without proof.
• assumption noun Something accepted as true without proof, or the act of accepting it as true.
• befriend verb To become someone's friend, or to act in a friendly, supportive way toward them.
• contract noun A written or spoken agreement, especially one intended to be enforceable by law.
• credit noun Recognition or praise given for something a person has done.
• embrace verb To hold someone closely in your arms as a sign of affection; to hug.
• get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
• presume verb To accept something as true or likely without direct proof.
• presumption noun Something accepted as probably true without direct proof, or the act of assuming it.
• suppose verb To assume or believe something without full proof.
• supposition noun An assumption made without full proof.
• surmise verb To guess or conclude something without solid proof.
• take verb To reach out and get hold of something, or to remove or carry it away.

Senses

Annehmen is used for these senses in English:

• accept (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• adopt To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
• agree (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
• assume To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
• assume To take on a position, duty or form
• assume To adopt (an idea or cause)
• assumption The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
• befriend (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.

accept — full definition

1. verb To agree to receive or take something that is offered.
2. verb To acknowledge something as true or as a fact, even if reluctantly.
3. verb To approve of and include someone, such as in a group or institution.

adopt — full definition

1. verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
2. verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.

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