acquire - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Some sentence examples which use the word 'acquire'
It was Paul's hope in this way to acquire a support in his war with the Spaniards.
3 If one is apt to acquire too narrow a view of Jewish legalism, the whole experience of subsequent history, through the heroic age of the Maccabees and onwards, only proves that the minuteness of ritual procedure could not cramp the heart.
She had acquired that provoking beauty that stirs men.