adopt
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
To take up and follow a course or method.
Framework senses
- §1
- To take up and follow a course or method.
- §1
- to take into one's family
- §2
- to take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- §3
- to take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- §4
- to put into dramatic form
- §5
- to take up and practice as one's own
- §6
- to choose and follow
- §7
- to take on titles, offices, duties, or responsibilities