Acquiesce
verb
To agree or show agreement silently or without protest.
Upon hearing the verdict, the defendant decided to acquiesce quietly.
Often appears as...
- acquiesce to
- acquiesce in
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Formal
verb
To agree or show agreement silently or without protest.
Upon hearing the verdict, the defendant decided to acquiesce quietly.
Often appears as...
- acquiesce to
- acquiesce in
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Silent Agreement
Acquiesce means agreeing without arguing back, often reluctantly.
Her parents wanted her home early, and she acquiesced without a word.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Discontent
While acquiescing, the person might still feel unhappy or disagree inside.
He acquiesced to the plan, his silence hiding his true feelings.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Acquiesce can imply a power imbalance where one person feels they can't object.
The employees acquiesced to the new policy, fearing job loss.
Pro Tip 1/3Silent Agreement
Acquiesce means agreeing without arguing back, often reluctantly.
Her parents wanted her home early, and she acquiesced without a word.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Discontent
While acquiescing, the person might still feel unhappy or disagree inside.
He acquiesced to the plan, his silence hiding his true feelings.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Acquiesce can imply a power imbalance where one person feels they can't object.
The employees acquiesced to the new policy, fearing job loss.
Pro Tip 1/3Silent Agreement
Acquiesce means agreeing without arguing back, often reluctantly.
Her parents wanted her home early, and she acquiesced without a word.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Discontent
While acquiescing, the person might still feel unhappy or disagree inside.
He acquiesced to the plan, his silence hiding his true feelings.
Pro Tip 3/3Power Dynamics
Acquiesce can imply a power imbalance where one person feels they can't object.
The employees acquiesced to the new policy, fearing job loss.
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When Big Oil Owns Your...
We want to drill here and here. Well, immediately, you get into a fight. You say, no, you're not. Yes, we are. No, you're not. Well, we're gonna sue you. And I'm just a little guy, you know. I can't stand to be sued by an oil company. So a lot of times, you just acquiesce, say, go ahead, you know. I can't fight you.
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When Big Oil Owns Your...
We want to drill here and here. Well, immediately, you get into a fight. You say, no, you're not. Yes, we are. No, you're not. Well, we're gonna sue you. And I'm just a little guy, you know. I can't stand to be sued by an oil company. So a lot of times, you just acquiesce, say, go ahead, you know. I can't fight you.
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Quote examples
Sean Parker
American Businessman
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
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Martin Jacques
British Journalist
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.
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Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.
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George William Norris
American Politician
Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.
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Robert Smith
English Musician
If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
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Robert Dale Owen
Scottish Politician
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
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Naomi Alderman
English Novelist
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
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Val Kilmer
American Actor
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Quote examples
Sean Parker
American Businessman
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
Quote examples
Martin Jacques
British Journalist
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.
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Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.
Quote examples
George William Norris
American Politician
Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.
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Robert Smith
English Musician
If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
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Robert Dale Owen
Scottish Politician
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
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Naomi Alderman
English Novelist
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
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Val Kilmer
American Actor
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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