assent
verb (used without object)
to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed byto ).
assented
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past participleof assent.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof assent.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
assentverb (used without object)to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed byto ).
Example Sentences
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Elliot notes, a bit melodramatically, that while Erika “led me down the path to my destruction,” he actively assented to everything that happened to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The prosecutors said they played “no role in ICE’s decisions, which defendant assented to, or even knew about those decisions beforehand.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
Rubio swiftly assented to calls from European leaders to meet in Geneva to review the Witkoff-Kushner-Dmitriev plan.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
The new law may still face amendments and must be assented to by the president to become law.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2023
To this I assented; and he requested a boy fetch me a fiddle lain in another room.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
