acquiesce in/to• Tom acquiesced to all her suggestions, though he never expected to see her again once they got off the ship.• Then the AirForce could hardly acquiesce to an honorabledischarge.• Instead, I acquiesced in her authority and I quietly did as I was told.• Sound-particularly music-comes to stand for a regional refusal to acquiesce to imperial or metropolitan power.• At some point she had acquiesced to the fact that I was taking Janir away.• By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest.• This is a deaddraw, but Karpov flogged a very dead horse until move 86 before acquiescing in the inevitable.• The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.• City officials eventually acquiesced to the protesters' demands.
Originacquiesce
(1600-1700)Frenchacquiescer, from Latinacquiescere, from ad-“to” + quiescere“to be quiet”