adopt

IPA: ʌdˈɑpt

(art, informal) Short for adoptable. [A person or animal that is eligible to be adopted.]

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To contribute towards the upkeep of (a child or animal), in exchange for occasional stories, pictures, etc.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To select and take or approve.
(chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.

Examples of "adopt" in Sentences

The plainness that many NOB women adopt is viewed by city women here as somewhat odd.
The spirit we ought to adopt is to look for the best, and not for faults and failings.
Much of the book is dull: and Fathom's conversation is (to adopt a cant word) extremely unconvincing.
Why would we adopt a Latin word meaning baby to describe what we already know is a baby in formation?
Are not the United States now _free_ to adopt such measures as an independent nation may _justly adopt_ in defense of its _rights and honor_?
So that it cannot be denied that we may treat the Rebel States as _enemies_, and adopt all measures against them _which any belligerents engaged in a just war may adopt_.
I can only imagine that it might be heightened if one was to adopt from a country like Guatemala or India where baby stealing is alleged if not proven in a handful of cases.
Before long, the two adopt a code word for "all things romantic": dowsing, borrowed from a barely coherent rant by Vanessa's alcoholic mother about her family's gift for finding water underground.
Failing that, they'll imply that the only reason gays and lesbians want to adopt is so we can recruit more kids into the Radical Homosexual Agenda, which presumably includes hard-core redecorating and secular-humanist brunching.