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Allow

verb

(past & past part. allowed; pres. part. allowing)

1.

Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen. Synonyms: let, permit. "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement" , "This will permit the rain to run off"

2.

Consent to, give permission. Synonyms: countenance, let, permit. "I won't let the police search her basement" , "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

3.

Let have. Synonym: grant. "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"

4.

Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause. Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside. "She sets aside time for meditation every day"

5.

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain. Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide. "The evidence allows only one conclusion" , "Allow for mistakes" , "Leave lots of time for the trip" , "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

6.

Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something. Synonym: take into account. "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"

7.

Afford possibility. Synonym: admit. "This short story allows of several different interpretations"

8.

Allow the other (baseball) team to score. Synonym: give up.

9.

Grant as a discount or in exchange.

10.

Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting. Synonyms: permit, tolerate. "Children are not permitted beyond this point" , "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"

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... depicted upon the countenances of the passengers, this securing of good seats at the first table, in a room which would not allow the serving of all at one time, was a vital matter. The purser stood at the entrance of the saloon and assigned a seat to each person upon the examination of a ticket presented. His office was not a pleasant one. There ...

— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond

... what his mother wished, and that she was willing to make the sacrifice? Or was it just some vague longing to please him by a show of affection toward his family, an unmeditated impulse of reparation? He had an impulse himself to be frank with Alice, to take her at her word, and to allow that he did not like the notion of going abroad. This was Dan's notion of being frank; he could still reserve the fact that he had given his mother a tacit promise to bring Alice home to live, but he postponed even this. He said: "Oh, I guess that'll be all right, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... 'Tis well: but do thou free her and according to thy promise marry her to me.' Accordingly he did this and gave us costly goods and store of raiment and furniture and five hundred dinars, saying, This is the amount of that which I purpose to allow you every month, but on condition that thou be my cup-companion and that I hear the girl sing when I will.' Furthermore, he assigned us private quarters and bade transport thither all our need; so, when I went to the house I found it filled full of furniture and stuffs and carried the ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

... but that many of the readers of this book will wonder that Rollo should have acted in this manner. And yet they themselves act in just such a way when they allow themselves to get out of temper. It is very dangerous to allow ourselves to become vexed and angry. We then do and say the most unreasonable things, without being aware, ourselves, of their unreasonableness and folly. Rollo himself did not know how his conduct appeared to the ...

— Rollo's Museum • Jacob Abbott

... indeed, most of his evenings had been spent, and the minutes were minutes of agony to him. The external circumstances of his position were as comfortable as circumstances would allow. He had a room to himself looking out through heavy iron bars into one of the courts of the prison. The chamber was carpeted, and was furnished with bed and chairs and two tables. Books were allowed him as he pleased, and pen and ink. It was May, ...

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