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receive

English

  1. 🔊 convert into sounds or pictures
    “receive the incoming radio signals”
  2. 🔊 receive a specified treatment (abstract)
    “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”
  3. 🔊 regard favorably or with disapproval
    “Her new collection of poems was not well received”
  4. 🔊 accept as true or valid
    “He received Christ”
  5. 🔊 partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
  6. 🔊 express willingness to have in one's home or environs
    “The community warmly received the refugees”
  7. 🔊 get something
    “receive payment”
  8. 🔊 have or give a reception
    “The lady is receiving Sunday morning”
  9. 🔊 bid welcome to
  10. 🔊 register (perceptual input)
    “pick up a signal”
  11. 🔊 go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
    “get an idea”
  12. 🔊 receive as a retribution or punishment
    “He got 5 years in prison”
  13. 🔊 experience as a reaction
    “My proposal met with much opposition”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 recepcionar to receive
  2. 🔊 receptar to receive
  3. 🔊 recibir to receive, get
  4. 🔊 acoger to receive, welcome
  5. 🔊 sacar to receive, get, be inflicted with

Similar words

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