acquiesce
- to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
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conform, accede, concur, comply, submit, okay, reconcile, consent, accept, ditto, accommodate, subscribe, set, adjust, yield, allow, pass, jibe, buy, approveExamples from the Web for acquiesce
Contemporary Examples of acquiesce
He was force of nature and a force for good that eventually, they had to acquiesce.
Why should we acquiesce in the preparation of our spirits for the worst kind of servility—slavery to fate?
Are five crotchety conservative men likely to decide to acquiesce to this change, or fight it?
If you let by without dispute a failure of language you acquiesce in an affront against literary integrity.
So many wish to suppress this history, and it's good to see Coulter refusing to acquiesce.
Historical Examples of acquiesce
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.
This truth is so simple that the very ease with which we acquiesce in it robs it of its power.
The Ministry of IntercessionAndrew Murray
If you do not find him, will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him?
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Could I not pretend to acquiesce to his wishes, and so delay your end?
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
Domiloff, who did not expect the Duke of Reist in an hour, was forced to acquiesce.
The TraitorsE. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
acquiesce
- (intr; often foll by in or to) to comply (with); assent (to) without protest