acquiesce
verbTo accept or agree without active resistance, often reluctantly.
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Clear all filtersTo accept or agree without active resistance, often reluctantly.
Acceptance without active objection, often despite reservations.
To make something more attractive by adding decoration.
Actively opposed, hostile, or inclined to conflict.
A refractive error in which the shape of the cornea or eye lens causes light to focus unevenly, potentially blurring or distorting vision.
No longer existing or functioning.
Not actively involved or mentally and emotionally invested.
Characterized by activity or change, or by interactions that produce change.
Active and changing
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Retired while retaining an honorary title.
Retired with honorary title
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Attractive or interesting enough to hold attention.
Strong ill will, antagonism, or active opposition.
Nearsightedness; figuratively, a failure to consider wider or longer-term consequences.
Limited long-term outlook
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Taking little independent action or accepting events without active resistance.
Shared or exchanged by both sides.
To revive or bring back into active use.
Involving much sitting and little physical movement.
A habitually lazy or inactive person.
Moving, responding, or developing with little speed or energy.
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