Accept and Submit to

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Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.

Usage example: some merchants in town will accept Canadian coins

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Submit to is a synonym for accept in stand topic. In some cases you can use "Submit to" instead a verb "Accept", when it comes to topics like tolerate, put up with, go along with.

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Accept is a synonym for submit to in allow topic. You can use "Accept" instead a verb "Submit to", if it concerns topics such as endure.

Superego: Stannis demands that Renly submit to Stannis and accept Stannis as king due to Stannis, by law, having the superior claim by being the elder brother.

Source: Freudian Trio / Literature
John Carter of Mars: This rule is so powerful on Barsoom that even the women accept it and submit to being rescued no matter how distressed they may be at leaving their male companions and love interests in deadly peril.

Source: Always Save the Girl
In Electra, the main character will not give up mourning her father until he's avenged, will not act like a woman and accept her place, and will not submit to her stepfather Aegisthus' and Clytemnestra's abuse.

Source: Determinator / Theater

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