ACQUIESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquiesce mean? 

• ACQUIESCE (verb)
  The verb ACQUIESCE has 1 sense:

1. to agree or express agreement

  Familiarity information: ACQUIESCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUIESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acquiesce    ... he / she / it acquiesces   
Past simple: acquiesced   
Past participle: acquiesced   
-ing form: acquiescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To agree or express agreement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; acquiesce; assent

Context example:

The Maestro assented to the request for an encore

Hypernyms (to "acquiesce" is one way to...):

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "acquiesce"):

connive (encourage or assent to illegally or criminally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

acquiescence (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)

acquiescence (acceptance without protest)

acquiescent (willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest)

 Context examples 

They all agreed that it was best that I should not be drawn further into this awful work, and I acquiesced.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was weary of our little sitting-room and gladly acquiesced.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My aunt and I both acquiesced.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He acquiesced in all her decisions, caught all her enthusiasm; and long before his visit concluded, they conversed with the familiarity of a long-established acquaintance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth said no more—but her mind could not acquiesce.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Henry's indignation on hearing how Catherine had been treated, on comprehending his father's views, and being ordered to acquiesce in them, had been open and bold.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"That I'm not!" acquiesced Laurie, with an expression of humility quite new to him, as he dropped his eyes and absently wound Jo's apron tassel round his finger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)