Synonyms for receive
rɪˈsivre·ceive

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1. receive

   Get is a most comprehensive word. A person gets whatever he comes to possess or experience, whether with or without endeavor, expectation, or desire; he gets a bargain, a blow, a fall, a fever; he gains what he comes to by effort or striving; the swimmer gains the shore; a man acquires by continuous and ordinarily by slow process; as, one acquires a foreign language. A person is sometimes said to gain and often to acquire what has not been an object of direct endeavor; in the pursuits of trade, he incidentally gains some knowledge of foreign countries; he acquires by association with others a correct or incorrect accent; he acquires a bronzed complexion by exposure to a tropical sun; in such use, what he gains is viewed as desirable, what he acquires as slowly and gradually resulting. A person earns what he gives an equivalent of labor for, tho he may not get it. On the other hand, he may get what he has not earned; the temptation to all dishonesty is the desire to get a living or a fortune without earning it. When one gets the object of his desire, he is said to obtain it, whether he has gained or earned it or not. Win denotes contest, with a suggestion of chance or hazard; in popular language, a person is often said to win a lawsuit, or to win in a suit at law, but in legal phrase he is said to gain his suit, case, or cause. In receiving, one is strictly passive; he may get an estate by his own exertions or by inheritance; in the latter case he is said to receive it. One obtains a thing commonly by some direct effort of his own; he procures it commonly by the intervention of some one else; he procures a dinner or an interview; he secures what has seemed uncertain or elusive, when he gets it firmly into his possession or under his control. Compare synonyms for ATTAIN; MAKE; REACH.

   See synonyms for ABANDON.

   Synonyms:
   achieve, acquire, attain, earn, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure, win

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1. receive

   Synonyms:
   take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent to

   Antonyms:
   give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. receive, haveverb

   get something; come into possession of

   "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"

   Synonyms:
   let, take in, invite, get, find, deliver, take, own, meet, make, throw, have, ingest, cause, encounter, give, induce, birth, hold, feature, stimulate, incur, have got, possess, pick up, experience, suffer, accept, sustain, consume, obtain, welcome, give birth, bear

2. receive, get, find, obtain, incurverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   pick up, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, find oneself, become, sustain, retrieve, scram, prevail, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, hold, go, rule, fix, stick, pay back, regain, happen, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, get under one's skin, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, welcome, arrest, meet, witness, bring, bewilder, see, mother, chance, take, buzz off, catch, let, come up, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, invite, ascertain, get, generate, capture, find, baffle, produce, get hold, start out, pose, vex, aim, induce, find out, perplex, recover, bump, notice, gravel, begin, fetch, father, determine, commence, discover, encounter, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, line up, pay off, detect, bugger off, cause, take in, observe, nonplus

3. pick up, receiveverb

   register (perceptual input)

   "pick up a signal"

   Synonyms:
   gain vigor, cop, take in, peck, call for, hear, invite, welcome, get, nail, collar, perk up, find, arrest, gather up, get word, have, meet, see, collect, nab, encounter, incur, lift up, turn around, apprehend, get a line, uplift, obtain, find out, percolate, pick up, experience, elate, catch, learn, get wind, perk, discover, intoxicate

4. experience, receive, have, getverb

   go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

   "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"

   Synonyms:
   take, pick up, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, hold, become, sustain, scram, invite, consume, go, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, pay off, fix, pay back, stick, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, arrive, incur, deliver, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, set out, birth, live, welcome, arrest, meet, give, bring, bewilder, see, mother, induce, buzz off, catch, let, feature, obtain, beget, flummox, get, generate, capture, have got, find, amaze, go through, baffle, start out, pose, vex, give birth, aim, throw, perplex, gravel, begin, fetch, father, bear, get under one's skin, encounter, puzzle, know, produce, convey, own, acquire, come, accept, possess, bugger off, cause, ingest, take in, nonplus, commence

5. receive, take in, inviteverb

   express willingness to have in one's home or environs

   "The community warmly received the refugees"

   Synonyms:
   earn, ask over, take in, put one over, gather in, suck up, assimilate, invite, welcome, get, befool, adopt, slang, imbibe, pull in, find, put on, put one across, take, have, suck, meet, view, tempt, pay for, make, call for, see, ask round, gain, bid, ingest, realise, encounter, soak up, sop up, watch, clear, incur, gull, take up, cod, ask for, pick up, fool, experience, draw, bring in, overhear, catch, absorb, dupe, realize, consume, obtain, collect, ask in, suck in

6. receiveverb

   accept as true or valid

   "He received Christ"

   Synonyms:
   encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

7. welcome, receiveverb

   bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

   Synonyms:
   encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

8. receiveverb

   convert into sounds or pictures

   "receive the incoming radio signals"

   Synonyms:
   encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

9. meet, encounter, receiveverb

   experience as a reaction

   "My proposal met with much opposition"

   Synonyms:
   conform to, touch, take in, experience, invite, get, gather, fulfil, fulfill, adjoin, find, match, suffer, have, meet, chance, converge, fit, satisfy, forgather, encounter, get together, happen, run into, cope with, fill, play, run across, incur, come across, pick up, assemble, contact, bump, take on, foregather, obtain, see, welcome

10. receiveverb

    have or give a reception

    "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"

    Synonyms:
    encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

11. get, receiveverb

    receive as a retribution or punishment

    "He got 5 years in prison"

    Synonyms:
    get, let, capture, stupefy, set about, baffle, stick, perplex, come, arrive, get under one's skin, bring, start out, acquire, mystify, invite, flummox, fix, beat, find, buzz off, arrest, take in, get down, take, have, nonplus, beget, start, meet, make, fetch, dumbfound, become, father, grow, bugger off, cause, encounter, commence, welcome, contract, aim, induce, go, develop, amaze, stimulate, drive, incur, begin, produce, gravel, suffer, pay back, bring forth, generate, convey, pick up, puzzle, experience, draw, bewilder, catch, sire, vex, mother, sustain, engender, scram, obtain, pay off, pose, set out

12. receiveverb

    partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

    Synonyms:
    encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

13. receiveverb

    regard favorably or with disapproval

    "Her new collection of poems was not well received"

    Synonyms:
    encounter, get, incur, find, invite, meet, welcome, obtain, have, pick up, take in, experience

Matched Categories

1. • Accept
   • Celebrate
   • Change
   • Christianity
   • Convert
   • Greet
   • Partake
   • Regard
   • Undergo

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   take (what comes to hand), ACCEPT, derive, obtain, acquire, get

2. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   admit, take in

3. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   entertain, welcome, greet, not reject, not repel

4. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   allow, permit, tolerate

5. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   believe, embrace, give credence to

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1. receiveverb

   Synonyms:
   take, accept, admit, allow, welcome, hold, contain

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1. List of paraphrases for "receive":

   receiving, receives, receipt, obtain, received, get, reception, accept, enjoy, perceive, collect, be, recibir, accommodate, receivable, gain, touch, acceptance, have

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How to use receive in a sentence?

1. Huang Haojie:

   The number of requests we receive every day now is close to 200 people, we take turns to rest and work once every other day, and then basically everyone works nearly 12 hours on that day.

2. Detective Estaban Flores:

   Officers receive enhanced training, focusing on how to identify and assist in situations involving individuals suffering from mental illness and cognitive disabilities.

3. Zachary Whinnett:

   Currently, a woman who suffers a heart attack has a higher risk of dying than if she were male. This study found that differences in treatment may be contributing to this increased risk, although further research is required, this is potentially an important finding because it suggests that the higher risk in women may not just be due to biological differences from men. Ensuring that women who suffer a heart attack receive the correct treatment, without delay, is likely to lead to improved survival.

4. Alexis Santos:

   That process -- we normally don't do it, we use our mom's address or something. Still, my uncles receive letters at my grandmother's house.

5. Mahmoud Abbas:

   We need the economy and we need the money. And practically, we need aid, but before everything, there should be a political solution. When there is a political solution, when we see a state of Palestine along the 1967 borderline, then we can say' Dear world, come to assist, we are ready to receive assistance.'.