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acquiesceac‧qui‧esce /ˌækwiˈes/ verb [intransitive] acquiesceOrigin: 1600-1700 French acquiescer, from Latin acquiescere, from ad- ‘to’ + quiescere ‘to be quiet’ VERB TABLEacquiesce |
Present | I, you, we, they | acquiesce | | he, she, it | acquiesces | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | acquiesced | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have acquiesced | | he, she, it | has acquiesced | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had acquiesced | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will acquiesce | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have acquiesced |
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Present | I | am acquiescing | | he, she, it | is acquiescing | | you, we, they | are acquiescing | Past | I, he, she, it | was acquiescing | | you, we, they | were acquiescing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been acquiescing | | he, she, it | has been acquiescing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been acquiescing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be acquiescing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been acquiescing |
- Before 1979 the Conservative party had effectively acquiesced in most of the public ownership measures of earlier Labour governments.
- Instead, I acquiesced in her authority and I quietly did as I was told.
- Sound-particularly music-comes to stand for a regional refusal to acquiesce to imperial or metropolitan power.
- The Court, in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Chase, acquiesced.
- The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.
- The other ashram women followed her in acquiescing.
- We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption.
formal to do what someone else wants, or allow something to happen, even though you do not really agree with itacquiesce in/to Oil companies have been accused of acquiescing in the pollution of the ocean. |