Definitions For Adopt

verb

• Take into one's family
• Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
• Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
• Put into dramatic form
• Take up and practice as one's own
• Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
• To take a child of other parents legally as your own child
• To begin to use or have (a different manner, method, etc.)
• To begin to use (a name that is not your real or original name)