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Verb adopt has 7 senses
- adopt, follow, espouse - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
--1 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- adopt, borrow, take over, take up - take up and practice as one's own
--2 is one way to accept, take, have
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- assume, adopt, take on, take over - take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?"
--3 is one way to take office
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take - take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
--4 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- adopt, take in - take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
--5 is one way to take
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- dramatize, dramatise, adopt - put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
--6 is one way to write, compose, pen, indite
Sample sentence:
Did he adopt his major works over a short period of time?
- espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholocism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
--7 is one way to accept
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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