RECOGNIZE
recognize
Verb
- To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
- To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
- To acknowledge or consider as something.
- To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
- To give an award.
- To show appreciation of.
- to recognize services by a testimonial
- To review; to examine again.
- To reconnoiter.
Verb (etymology 2)
- To cognize again.
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