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What does acquiesce mean?

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Verb
  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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War is necessary, as a last resort, for resolving disputes between states that cannot agree and will not acquiesce.
Her request was granted, although the hospital doesn't usually acquiesce to such appeals.
However, to understand is not to acquiesce in or accept these developments.
Third, have an alternative strategy to wrest the initiative from them and force them to acquiesce.
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.
He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason to promote its repeal.

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