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What does acquiesce mean?

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  1. (in) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
  2. (intransitive) To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
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Now that these men demand their pound of flesh in increasingly raucous voices, the government at the Centre has no resort left but to acquiesce.
To counter this threat, futilitarians are moving on two fronts to all but guarantee that courts will ultimately acquiesce to futile care theory.
He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason to promote its repeal.
War is necessary, as a last resort, for resolving disputes between states that cannot agree and will not acquiesce.
No matter what side you're on, there are enough voters who either agree with you or acquiesce to you to win the election.
To argue otherwise now is to acquiesce in a rhetoric which those of us who accept universal human rights have no choice but to reject as racist.

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