receive
Verbs
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(v) get something; come into possession of
- receive payment
- receive a gift
- receive letters from the front
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(v) receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
- His movie received a good review
- I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions
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(v) register (perceptual input)
- pick up a signal
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(v) go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- get an idea
- experience vertigo
- get nauseous
- receive injuries
- have a feeling
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(v) express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- The community warmly received the refugees
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(v) accept as true or valid
- He received Christ
- (v) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival welcome,
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(v) convert into sounds or pictures
- receive the incoming radio signals
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(v) experience as a reaction
- My proposal met with much opposition
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(v) have or give a reception
- The lady is receiving Sunday morning
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(v) receive as a retribution or punishment
- He got 5 years in prison
- (v) partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
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(v) regard favorably or with disapproval
- Her new collection of poems was not well received