Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to acquire
Participle: acquired
Gerund: acquiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | acquire |
| you | acquire |
| he;she;it | acquires |
| we | acquire |
| you | acquire |
| they | acquire |
Perfect
| I | have acquired |
| you | have acquired |
| he;she;it | has acquired |
| we | have acquired |
| you | have acquired |
| they | have acquired |
Past
| I | acquired |
| you | acquired |
| he;she;it | acquired |
| we | acquired |
| you | acquired |
| they | acquired |
Pluperfect
| I | had acquired |
| you | had acquired |
| he;she;it | had acquired |
| we | had acquired |
| you | had acquired |
| they | had acquired |
Future
| I | will acquire |
| you | will acquire |
| he;she;it | will acquire |
| we | will acquire |
| you | will acquire |
| they | will acquire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have acquired |
| you | will have acquired |
| he;she;it | will have acquired |
| we | will have acquired |
| you | will have acquired |
| they | will have acquired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | acquire |
| you | acquire |
| he;she;it | acquire |
| we | acquire |
| you | acquire |
| they | acquire |
Perfect
| I | have acquired |
| you | have acquired |
| he;she;it | have acquired |
| we | have acquired |
| you | have acquired |
| they | have acquired |
Imperfect
| I | acquired |
| you | acquired |
| he;she;it | acquired |
| we | acquired |
| you | acquired |
| they | acquired |
Pluperfect
| I | had acquired |
| you | had acquired |
| he;she;it | had acquired |
| we | had acquired |
| you | had acquired |
| they | had acquired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would acquire |
| you | would acquire |
| he;she;it | would acquire |
| we | would acquire |
| you | would acquire |
| they | would acquire |
Perfect
| I | would have acquired |
| you | would have acquired |
| he;she;it | would have acquired |
| we | would have acquired |
| you | would have acquired |
| they | would have acquired |
Imperative
| you | acquire |
| we | Let's acquire |
| you | acquire |
Verbs conjugated like 'acquire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'acquire'
acquite,
acquiet,
acquihire,
acquist,
acquit,
enquire,
esquire,
exquire,
inquire,
quire,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- obtain (something) in exchange for money
- buy, purchase, shop
- to gain possession of something
- accept, attain, cop, enlist, gain, garner, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, land, lay hands on, lay hold of, obtain, procure, receive, score, secure, snag, take, win
Antonyms
- to cause something to cease to be in one's possession
- find, possess, receive, lose
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquirō; ad- + quaerō (“to seek for”). See quest. See: Middle English '
acqueren', Old French '
aquerre', Latin '
acquirō'.
Verbs referencing "acquire"
Esperanto
akiri, Ido aquirar, Portuguese
adquirir.
Sample Sentences
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In a portion of the building, set apart for that purpose, are work-shops for blind persons whose education is finished, and who have acquired a trade, but who cannot pursue it in an ordinary manufactory because of their deprivation. Several people were at work here; making brushes, mattresses, and so forth; and the cheerfulness, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I have been thus particular in describing her, because she will serve to exemplify the physician 's manner of acquiring and retaining the confidence of his patients.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] employed upon the stone for a new custom-house in course of erection at Boston. They appeared to shape it skilfully and with expedition, though there were very few among them (if any ) who had not acquired the art within the prison gates.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] contain, could have maintained such a playful and incessant shower of expectoration, I am still at a loss to understand: notwithstanding the experience in all salivatory phenomena which I afterwards acquired.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] so much for this copper measure he conceived he had established a sort of claim and right to it. The other that, by dint of long thinking about, it had become a monomania with him, and had acquired a fascination which he found it impossible to resist; swelling from an Earthly Copper Gallon into an Ethereal Golden Vat.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] tea by all her friends and neighbors for the space of a fortnight, and her prospects and plans duly canvassed and inquired into. Miss Moseley, who came into the house to help to do the dress-making, acquired daily accessions of importance from the developments with regard to Miss Ophelia's wardrobe which she had been enabled to make. It was credibly ascertained that Squire Sinclare, as his name was [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in a very short time, and speculated again, as freely as ever. The following dialogue I have held a hundred times: ‘Is it not a very disgraceful circumstance that such a man as So-and-so should be acquiring a large property by the most infamous and odious means, and notwithstanding all the crimes of which he has been guilty, should be tolerated and abetted by your Citizens ? He is a public nuisance, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat; — so I don't believe, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The fact was, that Tom's home-yearnings had become so strong that he had begged a sheet of writing-paper of Eva, and, mustering up all his small stock of literary attainment acquired by Mas’r George's instructions, he conceived the bold idea of writing a letter; and he was busy now, on his slate, getting out his first draft. Tom was in a good deal of trouble, for the forms of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of one who had “ learned in whatsoever state he was, therewith to be content. ” It seemed to him good and reasonable doctrine, and accorded well with the settled and thoughtful habit which he had acquired from the reading of that same book.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)