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adopt
Overview of verb adopt
The verb adopt has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (37) adopt, follow, espouse -- (choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals")
2. (6) adopt, borrow, take over, take up -- (take up and practice as one's own)
3. (2) assume, adopt, take on, take over -- (take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?")
4. (2) assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take -- (take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables")
5. (2) adopt, take in -- (take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua")
6. dramatize, dramatise, adopt -- (put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay")
7. espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up -- (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith")
Grep of noun adopt
adoptee
adopter
adoption
adoptive parent
Antonyms of verb adopt
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adopt
7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
=> choose, take, select, pick out
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
=> accept, take, have
=> get, acquire
Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
=> start, take up
Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 5
adopt, take in
=> take
Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
=> write, compose, pen, indite
=> create verbally
=> make, create
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> accept
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb adopt
4 of 7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
=> adhere, stick
Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> resume
Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> re-assume
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adopt
7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
=> choose, take, select, pick out
Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
=> accept, take, have
Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
Sense 5
adopt, take in
=> take
Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
=> write, compose, pen, indite
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> accept
'Cause To' of verb adopt
Derived Forms of verb adopt
4 of 7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
RELATED TO>(noun) adoption#1
=> adoption, acceptance, acceptation, espousal
Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
RELATED TO>(adj) adoptive#2
=> adopted, adoptive
RELATED TO>(noun) adoption#3
=> borrowing, adoption
Sense 5
adopt, take in
RELATED TO>(adj) adoptable#1
=> adoptable
RELATED TO>(adj) adoptive#1
=> adoptive
RELATED TO>(noun) adoptee#1
=> adoptee
RELATED TO>(noun) adoption#2
=> adoption
RELATED TO>(noun) adopter#1
=> adoptive parent, adopter
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
RELATED TO>(noun) adoption#3
=> borrowing, adoption
Domain of verb adopt
1 of 7 senses of adopt
Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
TOPIC>(noun) writing#1, authorship#1, composition#6, penning#1
Domain Terms of verb adopt
Familiarity of verb adopt
adopt used as a verb is common (polysemy count =7)
Sample Sentences of verb adopt
7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
*> Something ----s something
Sense 5
adopt, take in
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
EX: Did he adopt his major works over a short period of time?
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb adopt
7 senses of adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
> choose, take, select, pick out
=> empanel, impanel, panel
=> anoint
=> field
=> sieve, sift
=> draw
=> dial
=> plump, go
=> pick
=> elect
=> excerpt, extract, take out
=> cull out, winnow
=> cream off, skim off
=> sieve out, pick over
=> assign, specify, set apart
=> single out
=> think of
=> specify, set, determine, fix, limit
=> adopt, follow, espouse
=> screen, screen out, sieve, sort
=> vote in
=> elect
=> nominate, propose
=> vote
=> side, go with
Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
> accept, take, have
=> accept, admit, take, take on
=> welcome
=> honor, honour
=> adopt, borrow, take over, take up
Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
> take office
=> accede, enter
=> assume, adopt, take on, take over
Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 5
adopt, take in
> take
=> adopt, take in
=> take away
=> take back, repossess
=> collect, take in
=> impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize
=> sequester
=> pocket
=> bear, take over, accept, assume
=> snap up, snaffle, grab
=> recall, call in, call back, withdraw
=> deprive, strip, divest
=> unburden
Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
> write, compose, pen, indite
=> draw
=> lyric
=> write on, write of, write about
=> profile
=> paragraph
=> paragraph
=> write off
=> dash off, scratch off, knock off, toss off, fling off
=> rewrite
=> write copy
=> dramatize, dramatise, adopt
=> draft, outline
=> verse, versify, poetize, poetise
=> author
=> annotate, footnote
=> reference, cite
=> write out, write up
=> script
Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
> accept
=> acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know
=> espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> believe
=> receive
=> approbate
=> resign, reconcile, submit
=> acknowledge
=> take a bow
=> respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb adopt
Sense 1
adopt, follow, espouse
=> choose, take, select, pick out
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Sense 2
adopt, borrow, take over, take up
=> accept, take, have
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Sense 3
assume, adopt, take on, take over
=> take office
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Sense 4
assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> change
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Sense 5
adopt, take in
=> take
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Sense 6
dramatize, dramatise, adopt
=> write, compose, pen, indite
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Sense 7
espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
=> accept
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Grep of verb adopt
adopt
Grep of adj adopt
adoptable
adopted
adoptive
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