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TAKE KINDLY TO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does take kindly to mean?
• TAKE KINDLY TO (verb)
The verb TAKE KINDLY TO has 1 sense:
1. be willing or inclined to accept
Familiarity information: TAKE KINDLY TO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be willing or inclined to accept
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
He did not take kindly to my critical remarks
Hypernyms (to "take kindly to" is one way to...):
be given; incline; lean; run; tend (have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
They did not take kindly to trace and trail.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Daisy, my advice is that you take kindly to Doctors' Commons.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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