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RECEIVE

Definition:

[verb] get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
Synonyms: have
[verb] receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
Synonyms: get, find, obtain, incur
[verb] recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
Synonyms: pick up
[verb] of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
Synonyms: experience, have, get, undergo
[verb] express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees"
Synonyms: take in, invite
[verb] accept as true or valid; "He received Christ"
[verb] bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
Synonyms: welcome
[verb] convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
[verb] experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
Synonyms: meet, encounter
[verb] have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
[verb] receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison"
Synonyms: get
[verb] partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
[verb] regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received"