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Definition of receive : 1. Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
2. To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
3. To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
4. To bat back ( the ball) when served.
5. To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
6. To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
7. To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
8. To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
9. To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
10. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

Synonyms:

give birth, run across, cause, overhear, become, nail, put one across, live, radar, convey, nab, arrest, begin, ask over, play, buzz off, see in, suffer, pull in, commence, mother, scram, come in for, inherit, dumbfound, rule, ghosting, apprehend, converge, imbibe, enter, gravel, recover, foregather, traffic, call, contract, come off, start, discard, take up, go, perk, match, attain, come up, bewilder, gain, undergo, bobble, bring, stimulate, drive, come into, forgather, bump, achieve, cop, put on, fulfill, stick, mishear, discern, witness, usher in, have got, pose, have round, know, stand up, cod, come over, have over, soak up, fool, birth, possess, come back, bid, fix, get under one's skin, find oneself, give, bear, realise, come on, respond, gather in, read, seize, pay for, directional, guest, baffle, clear, learn, sop up, come across, install, start out, make, induce, observe, fit, gain vigor, perk up, experience, see, nonplus, deny, pounce, vex, trade, invite, cope with, discover, see/hear things, have, deal with, produce, jam, go over to, pay back, get hold, develop, father, regain, get down, dive, suck up, realize, flummox, elate, shout out, sire, entrance, I'll hold you to that, cover, take in, interference, grow, mystify, puzzle, support, view, tempt, arrive, get a line, induct, dues, find, get together, introduce, contact, call for, cell, put one over, taste, inaugurate, bring forth, deal, detect, generate, consume, ask in, find out, gull, be reared on something, amaze, initiate, let in, perplex, peck, touch, deliver, admission, stupefy, engender, watch, fence, have in, dupe, sustain, uplift, pick up on, present, ascertain, happen, barter, bugger off, bring in, ask round, host, fulfil, endure, adopt, appropriate, fill, handle, aim, entertain, pick up, feature, arrogate, block, belong to, befool, catering, slang, deal in, co-opt, ask, throw, chop down, determine, adjoin, lift up, beget, conform to, footprint, satisfy, earn, disinvite, take on, turn around, pay your respects (to someone), line up, ask for, chance, pay off, suck, suck in, set out, beat, percolate, come, GPS, from, derive, prevail, own, feel, get wind, make out, go through, come by, turn around and do something, blank, permit, draw, let, redeem, intoxicate, get word, collar, set about, visit, prop, hear, gather up, react

contain, enclose, comprise, accommodate, hold, stow, include

collect, amass, annex, accumulate, assume, harvest, catch, obtain, capture, claim, net, fetch, land, heap, palm, bag, win, lure, secure, procure, garner, score, incur, retrieve, buy, reap, corner, add, wrangle, purchase

kiss, welcome, salute, nod, smile, embrace, accost, notice, greet, acknowledge, salaam, bow, hail, approach, signal, vociferate, wave, curtsy, shake hands with, kowtow, hug

encounter, gather, bump into, assemble, join, run into, meet

devour, admit, inspire, ingest, gulp, accept, engorge, absorb, assimilate, eat, swallow, gobble, get, access, take, inhale, pocket, acquire

Usage examples:

• Let there be silence while I receive His message!" - "Warrior of the Dawn", Howard Carleton Browne.
• Perhaps most pupils receive all that the teacher can give them in six months. - "Seed Thoughts for Singers", Frank Herbert Tubbs.
• This letter is so long, that it will hardly leave you that quarter of an hour, the day you receive it. - "Letters to His Son, 1753-1754", The Earl of Chesterfield.