acknowledge (verb)
61stand corrected — verb Said to acknowledge someone who corrects something that one says or writes that was not correct. The Battle of Hastings was fought in 1056 …
62bite the biscuit — verb a) To die. David Scott . . . admits he nearly bit the biscuit, during a 1985 trip to Kluane National Park in the Yukon. Scott was crossing a chest deep river with a racing current, when he slipped. The near freezing water whisked him away.… …
63disown — verb To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didnt go through with marrying Count Paris. Syn: disavow, disclaim …
64accept service — verb To receive and acknowledge receipt of service of process. See Also: refuse service …
65give the devil his due — verb To acknowledge the positive qualities of a person who is unpleasant or disliked. . . . for he was never yet a breaker of …
66ostracize — verb To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun. Lesbian studies scholar Ramona Oswald has extended this… …
67recognise — verb a) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity. The US and a number of EU countries are expected to recognise Kosovo on Monday. b) To acknowledge the existence or… …
68acknowledgeth — verb Third person singular present simple form of acknowledge …
69agnize — verb to recognize, to acknowledge …
70avow — verb To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. Vito avowed to take revenge on the man who murdered his father. Ant …
