How to pronounce “adopt”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
• To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
• To select and take or approve.
• (chess, slang) To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
• [Noun]
• (art, informal) Clipping of adoptable.

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