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adopt

English

🔊 take into one's family
“They adopted two children from Nicaragua”
🔊 take up and practice as one's own
🔊 choose and follow
“She followed the feminist movement”
🔊 take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
“When will the new President assume office?”
🔊 take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
“His voice took on a sad tone”
🔊 take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
“She embraced Catholicism”
🔊 put into dramatic form
“adopt a book for a screenplay”