Synonyms for acknowledge
ækˈnɒl ɪdʒac·knowl·edge

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1. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   own, recognize, allow, confess, admit, concede, proclaim, avow

2. acknowledgeverb

   To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

   Synonyms:
   confess, avow, proclaim, allow, concede, admit, own, recognize

3. acknowledgeverb

   To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.

   Synonyms:
   allow, recognize, own, admit, proclaim, confess, concede, avow

4. acknowledgeverb

   To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor.

   Synonyms:
   admit, confess, concede, proclaim, avow, recognize, own, allow

5. acknowledgeverb

   To notify receipt, as of a letter.

   Synonyms:
   allow, concede, recognize, avow, confess, admit, own, proclaim

6. acknowledgeverb

   To own as genuine or valid; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed.

   Synonyms:
   allow, avow, confess, recognize, admit, concede, own, proclaim

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1. acknowledge

   We accept another's statement; admit any point made against us; acknowledge what we have said or done, good or bad; avow our individual beliefs or feelings; certify to facts within our knowledge; confess our own faults; endorse a friend's note or statement; grant a request; own our faults or obligations; recognize lawful authority; concede a claim. Confess has a high and sacred use in the religious sense; as, to confess Christ before men. It may have also a playful sense (often with to); as, one confesses to a weakness for confectionery. The chief present use of the word, however, is in the sense of making known to others one's own wrong-doing; in this sense confess is stronger than acknowledge or admit, and more specific than own; a person admits a mistake; acknowledges a fault; confesses sin or crime. Compare APOLOGY; AVOW.

   Synonyms:
   accept, admit, allow, avow, certify, concede, confess, disclose, endorse, grant, own, recognize

   Antonyms:
   cloak, conceal, cover, deny, disavow, disguise, disown, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, mask, repudiate, screen, secrete, veil

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1. acknowledge

   Synonyms:
   avow, admit, recognize, own, accept, profess, endorse, grant, concede, concern

   Antonyms:
   disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate, ignore, deny

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1. admit, acknowledgeverb

   declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

   "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"

   Synonyms:
   admit, notice, allow in, intromit, let in, recognize, take on, hold, accommodate, know, include, recognise, receipt, take, allow, accept

2. acknowledge, receiptverb

   report the receipt of

   "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper"

   Synonyms:
   know, notice, admit, receipt, recognise, recognize

3. notice, acknowledgeverb

   express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with

   "He never acknowledges his colleagues when they run into him in the hallway"; "She acknowledged his complement with a smile"; "it is important to acknowledge the work of others in one's own writing"

   Synonyms:
   know, discover, comment, find, mark, remark, recognise, note, observe, admit, detect, notice, recognize, receipt, point out

4. acknowledge, recognize, recogniseverb

   express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for

   "We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, admit, notice, realize, realise, recognize, recognise, know, agnise, pick out, agnize, receipt, greet, distinguish, make out, discern, spot, accredit

5. acknowledgeverb

   accept as legally binding and valid

   "acknowledge the deed"

   Synonyms:
   know, notice, admit, receipt, recognise, recognize

6. acknowledge, recognize, recognise, knowverb

   accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority

   "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, distinguish, have intercourse, experience, have a go at it, have sex, spot, bed, cognise, know, get laid, make love, bonk, agnise, greet, love, agnize, admit, pick out, eff, live, sleep together, notice, realise, do it, accredit, lie with, make out, discern, be intimate, recognize, jazz, sleep with, hump, receipt, screw, have it off, recognise, have it away, get it on, cognize, bang, realize, roll in the hay

Matched Categories

1. • Accept
   • Communicate
   • Declare
   • React

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1. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   recognize, take cognizance of, be aware of, hold in remembrance

2. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   admit, grant, concede, allow, accept, indorse, subscribe to, agree to

3. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   confess, own, avow, profess

4. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   express gratitude for, give thanks for

5. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   own or admit the validity of

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1. acknowledgeverb

   Synonyms:
   admit, avow, concede, own, confess

   Antonyms:
   repudiate, deny, disavow

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1. List of paraphrases for "acknowledge":

   recognize, recognise, admit, recognition, recognizing, confess, accuse, recognized, realise, accept, concede, confirm, thank

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How to use acknowledge in a sentence?

1. Christophe Castaner:

   We acknowledge that there are doubts, that some people consider that the right to inform is under threat... That is why it is necessary to clarify it.

2. Middleton Brown:

   I acknowledge that I am very angry, she taught me that we are the family that love built.

3. Eli Lebowitz:

   Communicate acceptance. Acknowledge that something might be scary or distressing or uncomfortable or hard.

4. Julie Lutz:

   Some people will acknowledge that, yes, they've been feeling sad, but others may describe physical symptoms — fatigue, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating.

5. Kim Jong-un Rogers:

   It needs to be done within a framework. I'm the first to acknowledge that, you don't want the FBI and you don't want the NSA unilaterally deciding, 'so, what are we going to access and what are we not going to access?' That shouldn't be for us.