Entry Word: adopt

Function: verb

Meaning: to take for oneʼs own use (something originated by another) <the family adopted the American tradition of having turkey for Thanksgiving after they moved to the U.S.>

Synonyms borrow, embrace, take up

Related Words domesticate, naturalize; appropriate, arrogate, take over, usurp; absorb, assimilate, incorporate; cherish, prize, treasure; cultivate, follow, heed, honor; use, utilize; bring up, foster, nurture, raise, rear; affect, assume, copy, imitate, pretend, put on, simulate

Near Antonyms abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrender; abjure, abnegate, disown; reject, renounce, repudiate, spurn; discard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out