1 to bear

2 to support

3 to inherit

1 to undertake

2 to assume (responsibility etc)

1 to admit

2 to concede

3 to recognize

4 recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc)

5 to acknowledge

1 to promise

2 to undertake to do something

3 commitment

1 knee

2 (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration)

1 traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)

1 to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk (idiom)

1 to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning

2 bending and scraping to curry favor

1 servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning

2 bending and scraping to curry favor

1 lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven

2 the Divine Right of kings