All 6 Uses of
acquire
in
A Passage to India
- Especially after the rains do they screen what passes below, but at all times, even when scorched or leafless, they glorify the city to the English people who inhabit the rise, so that newcorners cannot believe it to be as meagre as it is described, and have to be driven down to acquire disillusionment.†
Chpt 1
- Mrs. Moore continued to murmur "Red ten on a black knave," Miss Quested to assist her, and to intersperse among the intricacies of the play details about the hyena, the engagement, the Maharani of Mudkul, the Bhattacharyas, and the day generally, whose rough desiccated surface acquired as it receded a definite outline, as India itself might, could it be viewed from the moon.†
Chpt 8acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Fists and fingers thrust above the advancing soil—here at last is their skin, finer than any covering acquired by the animals, smoother than windless water, more voluptuous than love.†
Chpt 12
- The night was still dark, but had acquired the temporary look that indicates its end.†
Chpt 13 *
- When the whirring of action ceases, it becomes visible, and reveals a civilization which the West can disturb but will never acquire.†
Chpt 27
- He had thrown in his lot with Anglo-India by marrying a countrywoman, and he was acquiring some of its limitations, and already felt surprise at his own past heroism.†
Chpt 37acquiring = obtaining (coming into possession of)
Definition:
obtain (come into the possession of something)