HAVE

have

(verb) suffer from; be ill with; “She has arthritis”

suffer, sustain, have, get

(verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); “She suffered a fracture in the accident”; “He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars”; “She got a bruise on her leg”; “He got his arm broken in the scuffle”

get, let, have

(verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; “He got his squad on the ball”; “This let me in for a big surprise”; “He got a girl into trouble”

have, experience

(verb) undergo; “The stocks had a fast run-up”

induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make

(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; “The ads induced me to buy a VCR”; “My children finally got me to buy a computer”; “My wife made me buy a new sofa”

consume, ingest, take in, take, have

(verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; “Have another bowl of chicken soup!”; “I don’t take sugar in my coffee”

hold, throw, have, make, give

(verb) organize or be responsible for; “hold a reception”; “have, throw, or make a party”; “give a course”

experience, receive, have, get

(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences); “get an idea”; “experience vertigo”; “get nauseous”; “receive injuries”; “have a feeling”

have, have got, hold

(verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; “She has $1,000 in the bank”; “He has got two beautiful daughters”; “She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard”

own, have, possess

(verb) have ownership or possession of; “He owns three houses in Florida”; “How many cars does she have?”

have

(verb) have left; “I have two years left”; “I don’t have any money left”; “They have two more years before they retire”

receive, have

(verb) get something; come into possession of; “receive payment”; “receive a gift”; “receive letters from the front”

accept, take, have

(verb) receive willingly something given or offered; “The only girl who would have him was the miller’s daughter”; “I won’t have this dog in my house!”; “Please accept my present”

have, get, make

(verb) achieve a point or goal; “Nicklaus had a 70”; “The Brazilian team got 4 goals”; “She made 29 points that day”

have

(verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone; “have a postdoc”; “have an assistant”; “have a lover”

have, feature

(verb) have as a feature; “This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

have (third-person singular simple present has, present participle having, simple past and past participle had)

(transitive) To possess, own.

(transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

(transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

(transitive) To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

(transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

To experience, go through, undergo.

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

(transitive) To give birth to.

(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.

(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

• The Guardian

(British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.

(dated, outside, Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

To trick, to deceive.

(transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.

(transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.

(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

(transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

(transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).

Conjugation

Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.

Synonyms

• (engage in sexual intercourse with): have one's way with, sleep with, take; see also copulate with

Noun

have (plural haves)

A wealthy or privileged person.

(uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

Antonyms

• have-not

Etymology 2

Noun

have (plural haves)

(AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.

Anagrams

• evah

Source: Wiktionary

Have, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Had; p. pr. & vb. n. Having. Indic. present, I have, thou hast, he has; we, ye, they have.] Etym: [OE. haven, habben, AS. habben (imperf. hæfde, p. p. gehæfd); akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. avoir. Cf. Able, Avoirdupois, Binnacle, Habit.]

1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.

2. To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has. Shak. He had a fever late. Keats.

3. To accept possession of; to take or accept. Break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me Shak.

4. To get possession of; to obtain; to get. Shak.

5. To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. It had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott. Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also Ld. Lytton.

6. To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.

7. To hold, regard, or esteem. Of them shall I be had in honor. 2 Sam. vi. 22.

8. To cause or force to go; to take. "The stars have us to bed." Herbert. "Have out all men from me." 2 Sam. xiii. 9.

9. To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion. Shak.

10. To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive. Science has, and will long have, to be a divider and a separatist. M. Arnold. The laws of philology have to be established by external comparison and induction. Earle.

11. To understand. You have me, have you not Shak.

12. To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang]

Note: Have, as an auxiliary verb, is used with the past participle to form preterit tenses; as, I have loved; I shall have eaten. Originally it was used only with the participle of transitive verbs, and denoted the possession of the object in the state indicated by the participle; as, I have conquered him, I have or hold him in a conquered state; but it has long since lost this independent significance, and is used with the participles both of transitive and intransitive verbs as a device for expressing past time. Had is used, especially in poetry, for would have or should have. Myself for such a face had boldly died. Tennyson. To have a care, to take care; to be on one's guard.

– To have (a man) out, to engage (one) in a duel.

– To have done (with). See under Do, v. i.

– To have it out, to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion.

– To have on, to wear.

– To have to do with. See under Do, v. t.

Syn.

– To possess; to own. See Possess.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

HAVE

Etymology 1

Verb

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Etymology 2

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