MEANING
To accept or comply with something without open objection, often despite reservations.
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Words that belong together
- acquiesce in a decision
- reluctantly acquiesce
On the page
She acquiesced in the arrangement but refused to praise it.
He finally acquiesced to the council’s demand.
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Word forms
- Base
- acquiesce
- Past tense
- acquiesced
- Past participle
- acquiesced
- Present participle
- acquiescing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- acquiesce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are acquiescing
- Present perfect
- have/has acquiesced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been acquiescing
- Past
- acquiesced
- Past continuous
- was/were acquiescing
- Past perfect
- had acquiesced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been acquiescing
- Future
- will acquiesce
- Future continuous
- will be acquiescing
- Future perfect
- will have acquiesced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been acquiescing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: acquiesce; acquiesces; acquiesced; acquiesced; acquiescing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: acquiesces.
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