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acquired

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əˈkwaɪəd//
  • United States//əˈkwaɪɹd//

Developed after birth; not congenital.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of acquiresimple past and past participle of acquire

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adjective

  1. 1

    Developed after birth; not congenital.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).