1. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.

Rhymes with Adopt

• swapped
• stopped
• propped
• plopped
• flopped
• dropped
• cropped
• co-opt
• topped
• shopped
• popped
• mopped
• lopped
• hopped
• copped
• chopped

How do you pronounce adopt?

Pronounce adopt as əˈdɑpt.

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Sentences with adopt

1. Verb, base form
Label each way as a strategy one of the characters of the book would adopt.

2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
If you adopt a Yorkie, be sure to talk to the veterinarian about these two potential health issues.

Quotes about adopt

1. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

2. Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory.
- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

3. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

2. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] take up and practice as one's own.

3. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] take into one's family.

4. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect.

5. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities.

6. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] put into dramatic form.

7. adopt

verb. ['əˈdɑːpt'] take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.