acquired

acquired
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Gained by personal exertion]
Syn. reached, attained, gained, won, accomplished, learned, adopted, earned, collected, gathered, secured, procured, obtained, captured, seized, drawn, harvested, regained, retrieved, realized, got by the sweat of one's brow, dug out, raked in, cornered, netted, grabbed; see also won .
2. [Gained without special exertion]
Syn. given, accrued, derived, granted, endowed, transmitted, adapted to, conveyed to, inherited, handed down, bequeathed, ceded, allowed, awarded, passed on, willed to.
Ant. forfeited, deprived, lost.

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