Adopt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADOPT in dictionary:

VERB:
• choose (someone) as a candidate for office
• formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)
• choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
• take on or assume (an attitude or position)
• (of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
• legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own
• take (someone else's child) as one's own
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• take (someone else\'s child) as one\'s own

Words related to ADOPT

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How to use ADOPT in a sentence

• He does not care much about this, provided men in Parliament adopt his views or something like them.
• Every day will now bring you more independence of mind, more capacity to understand, not merely to adopt the thoughts of others, to reason and to form opinions of your own.
• To adopt the opinions of others was thought quite enough, without the child being troubled to think for itself, and to form an opinion of its own.
• This would be to imply a forgetfulness on her part of her own methods, and a prostration of art to purposes she would have scorned to adopt.
• But the cuckoo cannot or will not adopt that language, or any other of the habits of its foster-parents.
• The most plausible course for him to adopt was precisely that which he followed.
• The German was about to adopt his own suggestion by passing a blow out to the nearest Chinaman when the consul stepped before him.
• What led the Gaetanis to adopt this foreign style of ecclesiastical architecture is a circumstance unexplained.
• We have given a number of reasons for refusing to favor or adopt the modern revival system as a part of the Way of Salvation.
• What means did Caesar adopt to prevent a defeat? 19.
• The conservatives asked President Lincoln to adopt their plan.
• Some traces of this kind of penance may be still perceived in the east, where the followers of Mahomet have been found to adopt it.
• I bring this fact to the knowledge of the people of Liege in order that they may know what fate to expect should they adopt a similar attitude.
• But such is my regard for these gentlemen, and the element they represent, that I stand ready to abandon my views and adopt theirs on your simple word.
• How shall we bring this about? Adopt resolutions? Very good.
• The Roman government therefore determined to adopt energetic means.
• To see after the property of so near a relative, he said, was an occupation that even a general might adopt without disgrace.
• If we adopt it, we do so for certain reasons, and beyond those reasons neither of us is qualified to go.
• At the time of its establishment, nothing was said of the mode of government which it was intended to adopt.
• It is possible that he anticipated the course the Governor would adopt.
• The first unions to adopt death benefits, for example, paid for a time a sum fluctuating in amount.
• The former being at least contingent, appeared the milder alternative, and they might have been inclined to adopt it had not a further obstacle stood in their way.
• The attitude you have chosen to adopt is neither sensible nor dignified, let me tell you.
• Therefore it is to the interest of the members of families to adopt a female, when such necessity arises.
• After they had deliberated for a long time they decided to adopt the following plan.
• I really think I shall have to give up the Francesca hypothesis, and, alas! I am not quite ready to adopt any other.
• Be it known, that we, the Marshpees, now assembled in the presence of God, do hereby agree to adopt the Rev.
• They did not understand, and could not adopt, the law of the world into which they had come.
• Bigelow had come to the conclusion that it was no longer safe to write over his own name, but that he would do well to henceforth adopt the name of the renowned Quaker, Wm.

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