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acquire
Overview of verb acquire
The verb acquire has 7 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (34) get, acquire -- (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")
2. (6) assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take -- (take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables")
3. (3) grow, develop, produce, get, acquire -- (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")
4. acquire -- (locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar)
5. acquire, win, gain -- (win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance")
6. learn, larn, acquire -- (gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate")
7. develop, acquire, evolve -- (gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting")
Grep of noun acquire
acquired hemochromatosis
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immunity
acquired reflex
acquired taste
acquirement
acquirer
Antonyms of verb acquire
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb acquire
7 senses of acquire
Sense 1
get, acquire
Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> change
Sense 4
acquire
=> situate, locate
=> determine, find, find out, ascertain
Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
=> get, acquire
Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
Sense 7
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb acquire
5 of 7 senses of acquire
Sense 1
get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> re-assume
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> fledge, feather
=> regrow
=> spring
=> sprout, stock
=> stool, tiller
=> leaf
=> pod
=> teethe
=> pupate
=> work up, get up
=> cut
Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
=> cozen
Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
=> relearn
=> catch up
=> absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in
=> study, hit the books
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb acquire
7 senses of acquire
Sense 1
get, acquire
Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> change
Sense 4
acquire
=> situate, locate
Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
=> get, acquire
Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
Sense 7
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
'Cause To' of verb acquire
Derived Forms of verb acquire
2 of 7 senses of acquire
Sense 1
get, acquire
RELATED TO>(adj) acquisitive#1
=> acquisitive
RELATED TO>(adj) acquirable#1
=> acquirable
RELATED TO>(noun) acquiring#1
=> acquiring, getting
RELATED TO>(noun) acquisition#3
=> learning, acquisition
RELATED TO>(noun) acquisition#1
=> acquisition
RELATED TO>(noun) acquirer#4
=> merchant bank, acquirer
RELATED TO>(noun) acquirer#1
=> acquirer
RELATED TO>(noun) acquirer#3
=> acquirer
RELATED TO>(noun) acquirer#2
=> acquirer
Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
RELATED TO>(noun) acquisition#3
=> learning, acquisition
RELATED TO>(noun) acquisition#4
=> skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment
Domain of verb acquire
Domain Terms of verb acquire
Familiarity of verb acquire
acquire used as a verb is common (polysemy count =7)
Sample Sentences of verb acquire
7 senses of acquire
Sense 1
get, acquire
EX: The children acquire the ball
Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
acquire
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s PP
*> Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sense 7
develop, acquire, evolve
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb acquire
5 of 7 senses of acquire
Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 4
acquire
> situate, locate
=> acquire
=> radiolocate
=> map
=> place, localize, localise
Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
> get, acquire
=> isolate
=> win back, get back
=> press out, express, extract
=> capture, catch
=> come by
=> buy, purchase
=> lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take
=> receive, have
=> turn
=> buy
=> find
=> glom
=> enter upon, come upon, luck into
=> line up, get hold, come up, find
=> accept, take, have
=> obtain
=> recover, retrieve, find, regain
=> catch
=> recover, recoup, recuperate
=> reclaim, repossess
=> find, regain
=> acquire, win, gain
=> gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
=> earn, garner
=> profit, gain, benefit
=> partake, share, partake in
=> preempt
=> preempt
=> collect, pick up, gather up, call for
=> inherit, come into
=> borrow
=> pick up
=> get
=> poll
Sense 7
develop, acquire, evolve
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb acquire
Sense 3
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> change
Sense 7
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
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Sense 1
get, acquire
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Sense 2
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
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Sense 4
acquire
=> situate, locate
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Sense 5
acquire, win, gain
=> get, acquire
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Sense 6
learn, larn, acquire
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Grep of verb acquire
acquire
Grep of adj acquire
acquired
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