Thesaurus: adopt

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1. v. t. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
2. v. t. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
3. v. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
4. v. take up and practice as one's own
5. v. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
6. v. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
7. v. take into one's family
8. v. put into dramatic form
9. v. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
10. 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
11. v:100 v. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans v. take up and practice as one's own v. take into one's family