receive

receive is a 7-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
2. transitive verb. Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
3. transitive verb. To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
4. transitive verb. To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
5. transitive verb. To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
6. transitive verb. To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
7. transitive verb. To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
8. transitive verb. To bat back (the ball) when served.
9. intransitive verb. To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
10. intransitive verb. To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
11. verb. convert into sounds or pictures

    "receive the incoming radio signals"

12. verb. receive a specified treatment (abstract)

    "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

    "His movie received a good review"

    Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain

13. verb. regard favorably or with disapproval

    "Her new collection of poems was not well received"

14. verb. accept as true or valid

    "He received Christ"

15. verb. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

    Synonyms: welcome

16. verb. partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
17. verb. express willingness to have in one's home or environs

    "The community warmly received the refugees"

    Synonyms: invite

18. verb. register (perceptual input)

    "pick up a signal"

19. verb. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

    "get an idea"

    "experience vertigo"

    Synonyms: experience, get, have

20. verb. receive as a retribution or punishment

    "He got 5 years in prison"

    Synonyms: get

21. verb. get something; come into possession of

    "receive payment"

    "receive a gift"

    Synonyms: have

22. verb. have or give a reception

    "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"

23. verb. experience as a reaction

    "My proposal met with much opposition"

    Synonyms: encounter, meet

Synonyms

find, get, incur, obtain, welcome, invite, experience, have, encounter, meet

Common word forms

received, receiver, receives, receiving

Words from these letters

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