ADOPT
- choose (a textbook) for required study in a course
- accept formally and put into effect adopt a constitutional amendment
- sponsor the care and maintenance of adopt a highway
- adopt a child couples choosing to adopt
- to take as one's own [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- to accept as one's own
- to become the legal parent of (the child of another)
- to place (a child) for adoption
- to take by choice into a relationship
- take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child
- take up and practice or use adopted a moderate tone
- to take into one's family by legal means [v ADOPTED, ADOPTING, ADOPTS] : ADOPTABLE [adj]
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ADONIS ADONISE ADONISED ADONISES ADONISING ADONIZE ADONIZED ADONIZES ADONIZING ADOORSNext Words
ADOPTABILITIES ADOPTABILITY ADOPTABLE ADOPTED ADOPTEE ADOPTEES ADOPTER ADOPTERS ADOPTIANISM ADOPTIANISMS
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