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To take up and follow a course or method.
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- assumedramatisedramatizeembracefollowtaketake intake up
- pasttense
- adopted
- presentparticiple
- adopting
- thirdpersonsingular
- adopts
- pastparticiple
- adopted
Framework definitions
- §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
Outgoing relationships
- verbLevel
applylexicon:CognitiveLevel
Incoming relationships
No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.