Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To praise or commend to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse.
  • intransitive verb To make attractive or acceptable.
  • intransitive verb To advise or counsel.
  • intransitive verb To commit to the charge of another; entrust.
  • intransitive verb To give advice or counsel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To commend to another's notice; put in a favorable light before another; commend or give favorable representations of; bring under one's notice as likely to be of service.
  • To make acceptable; attract favor to.
  • To commit or intrust, as in prayer.
  • To advise, as to an action, practice, measure, remedy, or the like; advise (that something be done).
  • To give or commit in kindness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on.
  • transitive verb To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
  • transitive verb To commit; to give in charge; to commend.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
  • verb transitive To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
  • verb transitive To advise, propose, counsel favorably
  • verb transitive, archaic To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb push for something
  • verb make attractive or acceptable
  • verb express a good opinion of

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English recomenden, from Medieval Latin recommendāre : Latin re-, re- + Latin commendāre, to entrust, commend; see commend.]

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Examples

  • And it would be very helpful if people had Internet access to do this, because what I'm going to recommend is listening to sites that have scripts included.

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  • Taking that into account im sure you'll find what you are looking for especially if you just ask them directly "Me gustaria un mole picante" or something similar. another thing i would recommend is trying Agua de Xilacayote (not sure if its spelled right) pronounced Chi-Laa-Ca-Yoh-Te it's generally sweet because its made of a sweet pumpkin but very tastful.

    Oaxaca please.......hold the mole? 2009

  • One thing I would recommend is wait for the retrieves and get fetch, hold and drop down to a science.

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  • Taking that into account im sure you'll find what you are looking for especially if you just ask them directly "Me gustaria un mole picante" or something similar. another thing i would recommend is trying Agua de Xilacayote (not sure if its spelled right) pronounced Chi-Laa-Ca-Yoh-Te it's generally sweet because its made of a sweet pumpkin but very tastful.

    Oaxaca please.......hold the mole? 2009

  • One thing I would recommend is wait for the retrieves and get fetch, hold and drop down to a science.

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  • I didn't finish many and the only book that I finished this week that I'd recommend is Lisa Shearin's The Trouble With Demons, book 3 in her Raine Benares series.

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  • Another one that I recommend is a film called Funny Games.

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  • Another one that I recommend is a film called Funny Games.

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  • The dough can look a little dry, but what I'll recommend is that people add between 2 1/2-3 cups of oatmeal instead of the full-on three.

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  • Changing this so that patients are not priced out of doing what their doctors recommend is where the big bonus in health comes.

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