All 7 Uses
adopt
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Someone Like You
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- Marion is still hoping she'll change her mind and put it up for adoption.†
Chpt 6adoption = the act of taking something on as one's own
- In the end, it was decided: Scarlett would go through with the pregnancy, but would honor Marion's wishes of seriously considering adoption.†
Chpt 7
- She ate only organic food, adopted twenty kids through Save the Children, and taught me the box step when I was in fifth grade, the two of us dancing around the living room while her record player crackled and sang.†
Chpt 9adopted = took on as one's own
- She hardly ever talked about the baby, and when she did, "adoption" was always the first or last word of the sentence.†
Chpt 9adoption = the act of taking something on as one's own
- She's still talking about adoption like it's for sure going to happen.†
Chpt 10
- Everything, that is, except the adoption articles and pamphlets that Marion kept leaving on the lazy Susan or on her bed, always with a card from someone interested in Discussing the Options.†
Chpt 11
- She acted like she was firm on adoption until about Month Seven, early March, when I walked in on her in the nursery.†
Chpt 18 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(adopt) to take on as one's ownThe exact meaning of adopt depends upon its context. For example:
- "adopt a child" -- to legally take on parental responsibilities for another person's child
- "adopt a plan" -- to accept or begin to use something
- "adopt a pet" -- to take in a pet -- especially one from an animal shelter
- "Congress adopted the resolution." -- had a formal vote and passed
- "adopted a confident attitude" -- took on or displayed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)