Other forms: acquiesced, acquiesces, acquiescing
To acquiesce is to go along with something without protest. Acquiesce in the decision, quietly acquiesced, acquiesce to the demand.
The silence is the whole of it, since acquiescing is not agreeing but declining to object. In law, acquiescence over time can cost somebody a right they never formally gave up.
1verbacquiesceTo go along with something without protest.
“Tired of arguing, she finally acquiesced to her children's demand for a dog.”
acquiesce is a submitting.
Latin acquiescere means to rest or find rest in, from ad plus quiescere, to rest.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷyeh₁-
Latin
acquiescō
Middle French
acquiescer
English, today
acquiesce
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French acquiescer, from Latin acquiescō; ad + quiescō (“to rest”), from quies (“rest”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA