Accepting Synonyms

263 accepting synonyms include believing, unquestioning, convinced, confident, trusting, unsuspecting, secure, overconfident, certain, and unsuspicious. Accepting is an adjective, and its antonyms are uncertain and skeptical. Here are some additional synonyms for "accepting" with example sentences.

Another word for Accepting

263 other ways to say accepting.

1. believing

  • unwary  
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  • unsuspicious  
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  • unsuspecting  
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  • unsophisticated  
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  • unquestioning  
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  • trusting  
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  • trustful  
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  • sure
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  • simple
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  • secure  
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  • reliant  
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  • overconfident  
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  • naive
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  • naïve  
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  • innocent
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  • hopeful
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  • gullible
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  • gullable  
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  • guileless  
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  • dependent
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  • credulous  
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  • convinced  
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  • confiding  
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  • confident
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  • childlike  
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  • certain
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  • believing  
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  • artless  
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2. approving

  • worshipping  
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  • worshiping  
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  • worshipful  
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  • warm
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  • sympathetic  
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  • supportive
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  • respectful
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  • recommendatory  
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  • praiseful  
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  • positive
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  • panegyrical  
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  • laudatory  
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  • laudative  
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  • idolizing  
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  • hagiographical  
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  • hagiographic  
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  • good
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  • friendly
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  • flattering  
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  • favorable  
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  • eulogistic  
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  • encomiastic  
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  • complimentary  
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  • commendatory  
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  • approving  
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  • approbatory  
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  • appreciative  
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  • applauding  
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  • advisory  
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  • adulatory  
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  • adoring  
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  • admiring  
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3. resigned

  • wretched  
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  • woeful  
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  • woebegone  
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  • weeping  
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  • wailing  
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  • unhappy
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  • sorry
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  • sorrowful  
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  • saddened  
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  • sad
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  • resigned  
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  • pessimistic
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  • mournful  
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  • miserable
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  • melancholy
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  • low-spirited  
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  • low
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  • joyless  
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  • inconsolable  
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  • hopeless
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  • heartsore  
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  • heartsick  
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  • heartbroken  
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  • hangdog  
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  • grieving  
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  • glum  
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  • gloomy
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  • funereal  
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  • forlorn  
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  • dreary  
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  • drear  
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  • downhearted  
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  • downcast  
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  • down
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  • doleful  
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  • dispirited  
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  • dismal  
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  • disheartened  
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  • discouraged  
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  • disconsolate  
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  • disappointed
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  • despondent  
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  • desperate
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  • despairing  
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  • desolate  
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  • depressing
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  • depressed  
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  • dejected  
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  • dark
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  • cynical
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  • crestfallen  
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  • comfortless  
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  • cheerless  
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  • brokenhearted  
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  • blue  
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  • bleak
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  • abject
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5. having

  • yielding (to)  
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  • welcoming  
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  • warranting  
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  • tolerating  
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  • taking  
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  • sweating out  
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  • swallowing  
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  • sustaining  
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  • surrendering (to)  
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  • supporting  
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  • succumbing (to)  
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  • submitting (to)  
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  • stomaching  
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  • sticking out  
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  • standing  
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  • shouldering  
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  • sanctioning  
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  • ratifying  
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  • okaying  
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  • OK'ing  
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  • having  
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  • giving in (to)  
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  • enduring  
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  • embracing  
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  • countenancing  
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  • consenting (to)  
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  • confirming  
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  • conceding (to)  
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  • capitulating (to)  
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  • brooking  
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  • bowing (to)  
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  • bearing  
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  • assenting (to)  
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  • adopting  
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  • acquiescing (to)  
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  • acceding (to)  
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  • abiding
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6. tolerating

  • upholding  
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  • tolerating  
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  • taking kindly to  
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  • sustaining  
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  • supporting  
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  • subscribing (to)  
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  • standing by  
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  • saluting  
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  • recommending  
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  • praising  
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  • okaying  
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  • OK'ing  
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  • liking  
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  • lauding  
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  • holding with  
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  • going for  
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  • favoring  
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  • enjoying  
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  • enduring  
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  • countenancing  
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  • consenting (to)  
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  • concurring (in)  
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  • commending  
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  • caring (for)  
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  • bearing  
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  • backing (up)  
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  • assenting (to)  
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  • approving (of)  
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  • applauding  
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  • acclaiming
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7. believing

  • understanding  
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  • trusting  
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  • taking  
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  • swallowing  
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  • supposing  
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  • setting store on  
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  • setting store by  
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  • presuming  
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  • inferring  
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  • deducing  
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  • crediting  
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  • concluding  
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  • buying  
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  • believing  
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  • assuming  
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  • accrediting
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  • accounting
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8. assuming

  • upholding  
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  • undertaking  
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  • taking up  
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  • taking over  
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  • supporting  
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  • standing by  
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  • shouldering  
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  • reassuming  
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  • reaccepting  
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  • indorsing  
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  • espousing  
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  • endorsing  
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  • embracing  
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  • consenting  
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  • championing  
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  • bearing  
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  • backing  
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  • assuming  
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  • assenting  
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  • agreeing  
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  • advocating  
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  • adopting  
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  • acquiescing
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  • acceding
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9. tolerating

  • yielding (to)  
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  • wearing  
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  • toughing it out  
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  • tolerating  
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  • taking  
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  • sweating out  
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  • swallowing  
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  • sustaining  
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  • supporting  
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  • suffering
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  • submitting (to)  
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  • stomaching  
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  • sticking out  
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  • standing for  
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  • standing  
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  • respecting  
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  • reconciling (to)  
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  • pocketing  
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  • permitting  
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  • meeting
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  • lumping (it)  
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  • living with  
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  • handling
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  • hacking  
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  • going  
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  • enduring  
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  • countenancing  
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  • consenting (to)  
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  • capitulating  
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  • brooking  
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  • biding  
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  • bearing  
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  • assenting (to)  
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  • allowing  
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  • agreeing (with or to)  
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  • acquiescing
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  • absorbing
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  • abiding
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Use accepting in a Sentence

He’s having trouble accepting the truth.

I’m accepting the offer after much thought.

She is accepting the award on stage.

The policy prohibits employees from accepting gifts.

We’re accepting donations for the cause.