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Defenition of the word receive

    • Defenition of the word receive

      • To be handed something; to come into possession of.
      • To express willingness to have (one) in one's home or environment.
      • To convert a signal into sounds or pictures.
      • To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to bid welcome to; to greet upon arrival.
      • To go through (mental or physical states or experiences).
      • To receive as a retribution or punishment.
      • of mental or bodily states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
      • receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison"
      • experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
      • of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc.
      • convert into sounds or pictures, of incoming radio signals
      • accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
      • partake of the Eucharist, in a Christian church
      • have or give give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
      • 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"
      • get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
      • express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
      • bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
      • convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
      • regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
      • partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
      • express willingness to have in one''s home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
      • recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
      • of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
      • have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
      • convert into sounds or pictures
      • receive a specified treatment (abstract)
      • regard favorably or with disapproval
      • accept as true or valid
      • express willingness to have in one's home or environs
      • register (perceptual input)
      • go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
      • receive as a retribution or punishment
      • get something; come into possession of
      • have or give a reception
      • experience as a reaction

    Synonyms for the word receive

      • accept
      • acquire
      • admit
      • be given
      • bear
      • believe
      • catch
      • collect
      • encounter
      • entertain
      • experience
      • find
      • gather
      • get
      • grasp
      • greet
      • have
      • hear
      • incur
      • invite
      • meet
      • obtain
      • pick up
      • sense
      • take delivery of
      • take in
      • undergo
      • welcome

    Similar words in the receive

      • receive
      • received
      • receivers
      • receivership
      • receivership's
      • receives

    Hyponyms for the word receive

      • absorb
      • accept
      • assume
      • fence
      • get
      • graduate
      • have
      • hear
      • horripilate
      • hustle
      • induct
      • inherit
      • labor
      • labour
      • respire
      • see
      • suffer
      • sustain
      • take
      • take in
      • take up
      • welcome

    Hypernyms for the word receive

      • accept
      • acquire
      • celebrate
      • change
      • comprehend
      • consider
      • convert
      • experience
      • fete
      • get
      • greet
      • have
      • partake
      • perceive
      • reckon
      • recognise
      • recognize
      • regard
      • see
      • touch
      • undergo
      • view

    Antonyms for the word receive

      • say farewell

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