Adopting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADOPTING 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).
• 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

Words related to ADOPTING

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How to use ADOPTING in a sentence

• Indeed, as we stood broiling on the shore, we began somewhat to regret that European manners and customs prevented our adopting the Guaraon and Arawak fashion.
• His eyes brightened a little at her action, but he volunteered no information and she decided later that he had obeyed orders in adopting this attitude.
• Let us not be misled by assuming a wrong explanation of these words, or by adopting the Middle Age traditions which made St.
• Many would wish to see their sons adopting such a meal as a training for foreign service in particular, and for temperance in general.
• The invalid was soon placed in it, and, adopting a style of travel that might have seemed unusual by daylight, in due time we were at the hotel.
• Malthus, by adopting and setting his name to it, has given it sufficient currency and effect.
• Dunn, of Corbridge, for much helpful criticism, and many suggestions which only want of space has prevented my adopting in their entirety.
• In many instances, they quite spoil their good looks, by half adopting the European costume.
• We had decided that we would get better results by adopting a programme and sticking to it at all our meetings or concerts.
• It is God who maketh them all, adopting different processes in their creation and destruction.
• I cannot tell you if you will succeed in your end, and I think the methods you are adopting wicked and shameful.
• And by adopting as the rule of our conduct the law of benevolence, all motive arising from the second cause is taken away.
• And as a further preliminary, we must now point out that the establishment of this relation will result from adopting the system here advocated.
• There would be little hesitation in adopting these measures in spite of any doubt as to their regularity.
• A large majority of the general Baptists were adopting similar views.
• It was also by night alone that I could hope to accomplish my object, and then only by adopting the utmost precaution.
• English bridge-builders are somewhat hampered in adopting rational limits of working stress by the rules of the Board of Trade.
• I felt like adopting the old motto and leaving well enough alone.
• A wealthy aunt, having lost all her children and being very lonely, thought to fill the vacancy in her heart and home by adopting a little child.
• A teacher, by adopting the following plan, succeeded in awakening a great degree of interest on the subject, and, consequently, of promoting rapid improvement.
• They appeared to have cast off all the feelings of civilised humanity, adopting as closely as they could follow them the manners of the savage inhabitants of the country.
• They were deliberately starved into adopting one or the other alternative.
• These are the love-poets who have no reluctance in adopting the past of a multitude of people to whom they have not even been introduced.
• At the present period an additional reason exists for adopting the measure recommended.
• Meredith, adopting devices by which she would be taken for any object in nature but herself.
• Adopting recent improvements, this process is materially altered, and has now arrived at such a point of perfection that it could scarcely be exceeded.
• I advise adopting the position of hand which is most comfortable and convenient.
• I had only just time to put the miniature into the drawer, shut it, and approach the window, adopting an innocent and indifferent attitude.
• A modern tariff, if it is to be really suitable to the requirements of the nation adopting it, must be the work of experts.
• Sir MATTHEW HALE lived in distracted times, and took the character of our man of letters for his model, adopting two principles in the conduct of the Roman.
• The practice of adopting a wandering religious life was frequent among the upper classes, and must have been a characteristic feature of society.
• Crawford soon became prominent as a politician, and adopting the party and principles of Jefferson, was transferred in early life to the councils of the nation.

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