Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

v. receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

welcome, receive, greet upon arrival, bid welcome to

v. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

invite, receive, take in

v. express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"

encounter, meet, receive

v. experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"

experience, have, get, receive, undergo

v. go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

bid, command, bidding, dictation

n. an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

supplication, plea

n. a humble request for help from someone in authority

suit, suing

n. a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship"

litany

n. any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"

share, partake, partake in

v. have, give, or receive a share of; "We shared the cake"

take, have, consume, ingest

v. serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"

gather, garner, collect

v. assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

take, take on, accept, admit

v. admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"

lodge, accommodate

v. provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"

welcome, accept gladly

v. accept gladly; "I welcome your proposals"

reach, pull off, accomplish, attain, achieve

v. to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"

draw, reap

v. get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

produce, get, grow, develop, acquire

v. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"

get, acquire, get hold of

v. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work"

hit, make, reach, gain, get to, arrive at, attain, get through to

v. reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

extract, distill, distil

v. extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"

obtain, secure, procure

v. come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?"

play, encounter, meet, take on

v. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"

encounter, meet, see, come across, run into, forgather, foregather, run across

v. come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"

experience, undergo, go through, live through

v. go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

see

v. perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he cannot see"

pluck, pick, cull

v. look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

reject, decline, refuse, turn down, pass up

v. refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

stay, rest, remain, continue

v. stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

tap, beg, solicit

v. make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

pay, be worth it

v. be worth it; "It pays to go through the trouble"

bid farewell, say farewell, say goodbye

v. say good-bye or bid farewell

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