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accept

verb [T] (BELIEVE)
 
 
/əkˈsept/

Definition

B2 to believe that something is true: The police refused to accept her version of the story. He still hasn't accepted the situation (= realized that he cannot change it). [+ that] I can't accept that there's nothing we can do.Believing
(Definition of accept verb (BELIEVE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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