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Definition of acknowledging : of Acknowledge

Synonyms:

attributing, ascribing, connecting, citing, assigning, applying, imputing, casting, marking, placing, referring, setting, attaching, branding, blaming, accrediting, crediting

echoing, retorting, answering, explaining, expounding, countercharging, returning, countering, responding, rebutting, replying, coming back

dispatching, corresponding, posting

hailing, noticing, saluting, bowing, kowtowing, welcoming, signaling, curtsying, approaching, receiving, waving, embracing, hugging, accosting, greeting, smiling, shaking hands with, vociferating, nodding, kissing

justifying, denying, objecting, reacting, refuting, defending

professing, propounding, accepting, ratifying, pledging, validating, contending, certifying, affirming, declaring, promising, corroborating, expressing, maintaining, sustaining, submitting, endorsing, attesting, warranting, verifying, claiming, adjuring, testifying, admitting, asserting, approving, supporting, proclaiming, stating, avouching, averring, pronouncing, assuring, setting down

Usage examples:

• That would be Fran, acknowledging the message of the drawings that only Soames would know about. - "Long Ago, Far Away", William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster.
• If there was, Marcy could not be surprised into acknowledging the fact, and so Beardsley thought it best to let the matter drop until he could go home and hold a consultation with the overseer. - "Marcy The Blockade Runner", Harry Castlemon.
• But the seals were unbroken, and Flinders gave a receipt for the contents, acknowledging that the most important documents had happily escaped the rats. - "Terre Napoleon A history of French explorations and projects in Australia", Ernest Scott.