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All allow synonyms

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verb allow

  • grant β€” to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • authorize β€” If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
  • oblige β€” to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
  • recognize β€” to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • support β€” to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • tolerate β€” to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
  • favor β€” something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • pass β€” to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • release β€” to lease again.
  • approve β€” If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
  • provide β€” to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
  • assign β€” If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
  • give β€” to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • admeasure β€” to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
  • allot β€” If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
  • own β€” of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • confess β€” If someone confesses to doing something wrong, they admit that they did it.
  • avow β€” If you avow something, you admit it or declare it.
  • concede β€” If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.
  • acquiesce β€” If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do.
  • accord β€” An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
  • certify β€” If someone in an official position certifies something, they officially state that it is true.
  • okay β€” to put one's endorsement on or indicate one's approval of (a request, piece of copy, bank check, etc.); authorize; initial: Would you OK my application?
  • license β€” formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
  • consent β€” If you give your consent to something, you give someone permission to do it.
  • indulge β€” to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
  • brook β€” to bear; tolerate
  • bear β€” If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
  • commission β€” If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
  • admit β€” If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.
  • let β€” Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
  • stand β€” (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • sanction β€” authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • suffer β€” to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
  • warrant β€” authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • accredit β€” If an educational qualification or institution is accredited, it is officially declared to be of an approved standard.
  • deduct β€” When you deduct an amount from a total, you subtract it from the total.
  • apportion β€” When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
  • remit β€” to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
  • spare β€” to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
  • allocate β€” If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
  • lot β€” lot (def 14).
  • recognise β€” to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • licence β€” license.
  • mete β€” to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
  • accept β€” If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • acknowledge β€” If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
  • set aside β€” the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
  • let on β€” to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • hear of β€” to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
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