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Definition of accepting : of Accept

Synonyms:

acceptive

authorizing, authenticating, confirming, permitting, underwriting, approbating

condoning, allowing, letting

resigning, retiring, abandoning, ceasing, relinquishing, abdicating, renouncing, rejecting, disclaiming, terminating, discontinuing, vacating, withdrawing, surrendering

bending, observing, complying, respecting, yielding, adhering, bowing, knuckling under, obeying, succumbing, genuflecting, deferring, kowtowing, caving, ceding, fulfilling

blessing, contracting, empathizing, affirming, conforming, welcoming, pledging, agreeing, acquiescing, cooperating, stipulating, approving, capitulating, acceding, assenting, promising, endorsing, sanctioning, consenting, concurring

contending, setting down, proclaiming, acknowledging, certifying, pronouncing, attesting, expressing, claiming, professing, submitting, declaring, sustaining, stating, asserting, propounding, corroborating, ratifying, adjuring, verifying, validating, supporting, warranting, maintaining, averring, assuring, avouching, testifying

eating, assimilating, pocketing, inhaling, ingesting, accessing, getting, absorbing, devouring, engorging, swallowing, gulping, gobbling, acquiring, taking, inspiring, receiving, admitting

believing, surmising, gathering, taking for granted, understanding, assuming, concluding, presuming, supposing, trusting, judging, giving faith, putting faith in, crediting, deeming, holding

serving

Usage examples:

• Man put them here to suit his own ideas; of that they were quite aware, and took it kindly, accepting superior powers, and inferior use of them, without a shade of question in their eyes. - "Springhaven A Tale of the Great War", R. D. Blackmore.
• " Very few would think twice before accepting him. - "The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope.
• If I had been taken at Waterloo perhaps I might have had no hesitation in accepting it, although even in that case it would be contrary to the law of nations, as now there is no war. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.