Definition of accept

"accept" in the verb sense

1. accept

consider or hold as true

"I cannot accept the dogma of this church"

"accept an argument"

2. accept, take, have

receive willingly something given or offered

"The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"

"I won't have this dog in my house!"

"Please accept my present"

3. accept, consent, go for

give an affirmative reply to respond favorably to

"I cannot accept your invitation"

"I go for this resolution"

4. accept

react favorably to consider right and proper

"People did not accept atonal music at that time"

"We accept the idea of universal health care"

5. accept, admit, take, take on

admit into a group or community

"accept students for graduate study"

"We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

6. bear, take over, accept, assume

take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

"I'll accept the charges"

"She agreed to bear the responsibility"

7. accept, live with, swallow

tolerate or accommodate oneself to

"I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"

"I swallowed the insult"

"She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"

8. accept, take

be designed to hold or take

"This surface will not take the dye"

9. accept

receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

10. take, accept

make use of or accept for some purpose

"take a risk"

"take an opportunity"

11. accept

be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal

"The cow accepted the bull"

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Quotations for accept

I accept the terms.

Thy will for deed I do accept. [ Du Bartas ]

To accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. [ Laber ]

Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn. [ Byron ]

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]

Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit. [ William Shakespeare ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning. [ Ward Beecher ]

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]

The Stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. [ E. Souvestre ]

Nobody but you owes you anything. Accept it and move on. The canvas of your life is yours. It is what you make of it. Paint it well.

Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim. [ Mazzini ]

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]

As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]

Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]

accept in Scrabble®

The word accept is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

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accept in Words With Friends™

The word accept is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters accept:

ACCEPT
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Words within the letters of accept

2 letter words in accept (4 words)

3 letter words in accept (14 words)

4 letter words in accept (7 words)

6 letter words in accept (1 word)

accept + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving accept

Shorter words in accept

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Longer words containing accept

acceptabilities

acceptability unacceptability

acceptable acceptableness unacceptableness

acceptable nonacceptable

acceptable unacceptable unacceptableness

acceptably unacceptably

acceptance acceptances preacceptances

acceptance nonacceptance

acceptance reacceptance preacceptance preacceptances

acceptance unacceptance

acceptancy

acceptant acceptants

acceptation acceptations

accepted acceptedly

accepted reaccepted preaccepted

accepted unaccepted

accepted wellaccepted

acceptee acceptees

accepter accepters

acceptilate acceptilated

acceptilating

acceptilation acceptilations

accepting acceptingly

accepting acceptingness

accepting reaccepting preaccepting

accepting unaccepting

acceptive

acceptivities

acceptivity

acceptor acceptors

acceptress acceptresses

accepts reaccepts preaccepts

reaccept preaccept preacceptance preacceptances

reaccept preaccept preaccepted

reaccept preaccept preaccepting

reaccept preaccept preaccepts

reaccept reacceptance preacceptance preacceptances

reaccept reaccepted preaccepted

reaccept reaccepting preaccepting

reaccept reaccepts preaccepts