Unscramble receive

Definition of receive

verb:

• get something; come into possession of; "receive payment", "receive a gift", "receive letters from the front". Synonyms: have.
• 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: find, get, incur, obtain.
• register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal". Synonyms: pick up.
• go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea", "experience vertigo", "get nauseous", "receive injuries", "have a feeling". Synonyms: experience, get, have.
• express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees". Synonyms: invite, take in.
• accept as true or valid; "He received Christ".
• bid welcome to; greet upon arrival. Synonyms: welcome. Antonyms: say farewell.
• convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals".
• experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition". Synonyms: encounter, meet.
• have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning".
• receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison". Synonyms: get.
• partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.
• regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received".

Related words

absorb, accept, assume, fence, get, graduate, have, hear, horripilate, hustle, induct, inherit, see, suffer, sustain, take, welcome.

Words nearby

deceive, received, receiver.

Rhymes with

achieve, aggrieve, aleve, believe, bereave, cleave, conceive, deceive, disbelieve, eve, geneve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, leave, misconceive, misperceive, naive.