acquiesce
verb (used without object)
to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent.
was acquiescing
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past progressiveof acquiesce.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You're talking about characters who have different perceptions of what went on and who did what to whom and who was acquiescing and who wasn't.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2015
Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness.
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
This was the precise period of time in which our fathers adopted, and during which they followed, a policy restricting the spread of slavery, and the whole Union was acquiescing in it.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln
He felt he was acquiescing in something illegal, taking to himself some wrong, reprehensible advantages.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
