transitive verb. To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).

transitive verb. To become the owner or caretaker of (a pet, especially one from a shelter).

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent.

transitive verb. To take up and make one's own.

transitive verb. To move to or resettle in (a place).

transitive verb. To take on or assume.

transitive verb. To vote to accept.

transitive verb. To choose as standard or required in a course.

To choose for or take to one's self; make one's own by selection or assent; receive or agree to as a personal belonging or opinion: as, to adopt a name or an idea; an adopted citizen or country; the meeting adopted the resolution.

Specifically, to admit into a relation of affiliation; confer the rights or privileges of kinship upon, as one who is not naturally related or connected; especially, to receive and treat as a child or member of one's family, etc.: as, the orphans were adopted by friends. See adoption, 2. To take or receive into any kind of new relationship: as, to adopt a person as an heir, or as a friend, guide, or example.

In euchre, to play with the suit turned up for trumps: a privilege of the dealer.

transitive verb. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

transitive verb. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve

verb. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.

verb. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

verb. To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

verb. To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

verb. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

verb. To select and take or approve.

verb. put into dramatic form

verb. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

verb. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

verb. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

verb. take up and practice as one's own

verb. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

verb. take into one's family

"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_."

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