to adopt
31adopt — v. (D; tr.) to adopt as (they adopted the child as their heir) * * * [ə dɒpt] (D; tr.) to adopt as (they adopted the child as their heir) …
32adopt*/ — [əˈdɒpt] verb 1) [I/T] to legally become the parent of another person s child The couple are hoping to adopt a baby girl.[/ex] 2) [T] to start using a new or different way of doing something He decided to adopt a more radical approach to the… …
33adopt — See adapt. See adapt, adept, adopt …
34adopt — a|dopt [ ə dapt ] verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to take someone else s child into your family and legally make him or her your own child: The couple adopted a baby girl. He was 18 when he found out he had been adopted. ─ compare… …
35adopt — a•dopt [[t]əˈdɒpt[/t]] v. t. 1) to take and use as one s own: to adopt a nickname[/ex] 2) to take and rear (the child of others) as one s own child, specifically by a formal legal act 3) to take or receive into any kind of new relationship 4) to… …
36adopt — To approve, as to adopt a regulation. To take as one s own that which was not so before. Dallas v Beeman, 18 Tex Civ App 335, 339, 45 SW 626 …
37adopt — to use an unavailable name as the valid name of a taxon in a way which establishes it as a new name with its own authorship and date …
38adopt out — verb To expel a son or daughter from a family by placing for adoption …
39ADOPT — Accupril Decision on Pharmacotherapy [trial] …
40adopt — Synonyms and related words: Americanize, Anglicize, accept, acculturate, acculturize, admit, affect, affiliate, appropriate, approve, arrogate, assimilate, assume, carry, colonize, confer citizenship, conquer, copy, derive from, domesticate,… …
