Meaning Of The Word Adopt
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Adopt Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Adopt?
adopt
verb: If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it. verb: If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter. adopt in American English to choose and bring into a certain relationship; specif., to take into one's own family by legal process and raise as one's own child transitive verb: to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent adopt in British English to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child |
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