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

adopt8 adopted11 adopts9

Words that contain ADOPTING

readopting14 preadopting17

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.

Similar words containing ADOPT without suffix ing

adopt8 adopts9 adopted11 adoptee10 adopter10 readopt10 adoptees11 adopters11 adoption11 adoptive14 preadopt13 readopts11 adoptable14 adoptions12 adoptious12 preadopts14 readopted13 unadopted13 adoptively19 preadopted16 readopting14 readoption13 adoptianism16 adoptianist14 adoptionism16 adoptionist14 preadopting17 readoptions14 unadoptable16 adoptability20 adoptianisms17 adoptianists15 adoptionisms17 adoptionists15 adoptabilities19

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