1. receive, have -- (get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front").
2. receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (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").
3. pick up, receive -- (recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal").
4. experience, receive, have, get, undergo -- (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").
5. receive, take in, invite -- (express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees").
6. receive -- (accept as true or valid; "He received Christ").
7. welcome, receive -- (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival).
8. receive -- (convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals").
9. meet, encounter, receive -- (experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition").
10. receive -- (have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning").
11. get, receive -- (receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison").
12. receive -- (partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament).
13. receive -- (regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received").
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