permitir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
- allow verb To give permission for something to happen.
- empower verb To give someone the authority or legal right to do something.
- let verb To allow someone or something to do a particular thing, or to happen without stopping it.
- permit verb To allow something to happen or to give someone authorization to do it.
- suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.
- vouchsafe verb To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
Senses
permitir is used for these senses in English:
- admit (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
- allow (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- allow (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- empower (transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
- greenlight (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To approve; to permit to proceed.
- permit (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to. [from 15th c.]
- vouchsafe To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
admit — full definition
- verb To allow someone or something to enter.
- verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.
allow — full definition
- verb To give permission for something to happen.
- verb To make something possible.
- verb To set aside time, money, or another resource for something.
- verb To admit or acknowledge something as true, often reluctantly.