Adopt

Language: English
Pronunciation: ad-opt
Part of Speech: noun

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To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)

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"choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans"

"take up and practice as one's own"

"take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities"

"take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect"

"take into one's family"

"put into dramatic form"

"take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own"

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