adopt

Meanings

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• take up and practice as one's own
• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  • "he adopted an air of superiority"
• take into one's family
  • "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
• put into dramatic form
  • "adopt a book for a screenplay"
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  • "They adopted the Jewish faith"

Synonyms

acquire, assume, borrow, dramatise, dramatize, embrace, espouse, follow, sweep up, take, take in, take on, take over, take up