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Agree   /əgrˈi/   Listen
Agree

verb
(past & past part. agreed; pres. part. agreeing)
1.
Be in accord; be in agreement.  Synonyms: concord, concur, hold.  "I can't agree with you!" , "I hold with those who say life is sacred" , "Both philosophers concord on this point"  Antonym: disagree.
2.
Consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something.  "He agreed to leave her alone"
3.
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.  Synonyms: check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally.  "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"  Antonym: disagree.
4.
Go together.  Synonyms: accord, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize.  "Their ideas concorded"
5.
Show grammatical agreement.
6.
Be agreeable or suitable.
7.
Achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose.



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"Agree" Quotes from Famous Books



... the discussion till the trio agree to sleep over it. The next morning an inspiration visits my wife's pillow. She is up and seizes plans and paper, and before six o'clock has enlarged the parlor very cleverly, by throwing out a bow-window. So waxes and wanes the prospective house, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... replied to him, "the hand is sometimes quicker than the eye, and the mind slower than the heart. For that reason I can not agree to ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough
... "I agree with you that she is undoubtedly a foreigner," answered I; "but I don't think she is Dutch—there is too much gilding and gingerbread-work about her quarters for that. There,"—as the sun broke through the clouds and showed his upper rim above the horizon, flashing a long, level beam along the ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... its fall, some called for a cage; others said, "Let us put it back in the nest; we do not know what to give it to eat; we may be sure it will die." And this seemed so very true that we were all obliged to agree; but, alas! the poor swallow having built in a false window of the tower, there was no way of getting to the nest, and so the cage was brought, and the little bird did not die, but grew bigger and prettier every day, ...
— Small Means and Great Ends • Edited by Mrs. M. H. Adams
... Indeed, Mr Rollestone, I agree with you a great deal more than with Mr Fussle. I should like to call out a higher moral force in myself—but I should never have the courage to undergo all the ordeals you say it would involve; I am too weak ...
— Fashionable Philosophy - and Other Sketches • Laurence Oliphant


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