(~s, ~ing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If people ~ with each other about something, they have the same opinion about it or say that they have the same opinion.
If we ~d all the time it would be a bit boring, wouldn’t it?...
Both have ~d on the need for the money...
So we both ~ there’s a problem?...
I see your point but I’m not sure I ~ with you...
I ~ with you that the open system is by far the best...
‘It’s appalling.’—‘It is. I ~.’...
I ~ that the demise of London zoo would be terrible...
I ~ with every word you’ve just said...
‘Frankly I found it rather frightening.’ ‘A little startling,’ Mark ~d.
= concur
? dis~
V-RECIP: pl-n V, pl-n V, pl-n V that, V with n, V with n that, NON-RECIP: V, V that, V with n, V with quote
2.
If you ~ to do something, you say that you will do it. If you ~ to a proposal, you accept it.
He ~d to pay me for the drawings...
Donna ~d to both requests...
= consent
VERB: V to-inf, V to n
3.
If people ~ on something, or in British English if they ~ something, they all decide to accept or do something.
The warring sides have ~d on an unconditional ceasefire...
We never ~d a date...
The court had given the unions until September to ~ terms with a buyer.
V-RECIP: pl-n V on/upon n, pl-n V n, V n with n, also pl-n V to-inf
4.
If two people who are arguing about something ~ to dis~ or ~ to differ, they decide to stop arguing because neither of them is going to change their opinion.
You and I are going to have to ~ to dis~ then.
PHRASE: V inflects, pl-n PHR
5.
If you ~ with an action or suggestion, you approve of it.
I don’t ~ with what they’re doing...
? dis~
VERB: V with n
6.
If one account of an event or one set of figures ~s with another, the two accounts or sets of figures are the same or are consistent with each other.
His second statement ~s with facts as stated by the other witnesses.
= tally
V-RECIP: V with n, also V
7.
If some food that you eat does not ~ with you, it makes you feel ill.
I don’t think the food here ~s with me.
VERB: with neg, V with n
8.
In grammar, if a word ~s with a noun or pronoun, it has a form that is appropriate to the number or gender of the noun or pronoun. For example, in ‘He hates it’, the singular verb ~s with the singular pronoun ‘he’.
V-RECIP: V with n, pl-n V
9.
see also ~d