Verb

(en verb)

To change the form or structure of.

* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

* Shakespeare

No power in Venice can alter a decree.

* Alexander Pope

It gilds all objects, but it alters none.

To become different.

To tailor clothes to make them fit.

To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).

(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

(Milton)

Verb

(receiv)

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Our hearts receive your warnings.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.

*(Bible), viii.64:

*:The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.

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To take possession of.

To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

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*(Bible), (w) xxviii.2:

*:They kindled a fire, and received us every one.

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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

To suffer from (an injury).

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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

*(Bible), (w) vii.4:

*:Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots.

(lb) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

(lb) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

# To be in a position to hit back a service.

#(lb) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

*, I.57:

*:I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.