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Definition of acquiring : of Acquire

Synonyms:

aggregating, accumulating, tallying, augmenting, summing, increasing, adding, incrementing, attaining, accruing, totaling

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

collecting, procuring, annexing, depriving, confiscating, monopolizing, catching, appropriating, levying, abducting, harvesting, gathering, grabbing, amassing, usurping, reaping, impounding, taking, getting, capturing, bagging, nabbing, commandeering

holding, having, possessing, owning

heaping, netting, buying, retrieving, scoring, obtaining, garnering, luring, winning, claiming, incurring, palming, securing, fetching, purchasing, wrangling, cornering, assuming, landing

Usage examples:

• If either one should ever succeed in acquiring the whole sovereignty, then they thought there would be an end of American liberty. - "The Critical Period of American History", John Fiske.
• How well do I remember a visit, made in my youth, to a school friend whom I had learned to admire greatly for her superior intellect, quick wit, power of acquiring knowledge, and ability to recite well in class. - "Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls", Helen Ekin Starrett.
• Sir John must have possessed an uncommon gift for acquiring languages, as he has also translated from each of the other Slavonic tongues with- so I am informed- similar accuracy and precision. - "Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians", Woislav M. Petrovitch.