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RECOMMEND
recommend
(verb) make attractive or acceptable; “Honesty recommends any person”
recommend, urge, advocate
(verb) push for something; “The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day”
commend, recommend
(verb) express a good opinion of
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)
(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
(transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
(transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably
(transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
Usage notes
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs
Synonyms
• See also advise
Antonyms
• deprectate
• disrecommend
• discourage
• disapprove
• oppose
Anagrams
• commender
Source: Wiktionary
Rec`om*mend" (rk`m*mnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] Etym: [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]
1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. Dryden.
2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Pope.
3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xv. 40 .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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