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adopted
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")
Overview of adj adopted
The adj adopted has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) adopted, adoptive -- (acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country")
2. (1) adopted -- (having been taken into a specific relationship; "an adopted child")
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
Antonyms of adj adopted
2 senses of adopted
Sense 1
adopted (vs. native), adoptive
native (vs. adopted)
=> connatural, inborn, inbred
Sense 2
adopted
INDIRECT (VIA adoptive) -> biological
Similarity of adj adopted
2 senses of adopted
Sense 1
adopted (vs. native), adoptive
Sense 2
adopted
=> adoptive (vs. biological)
Pertainyms of adj adopted
Attributes of adj adopted
Domain of adj adopted
Domain Terms of adj adopted
Familiarity of adj adopted
adopted used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj adopted
adopted
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