All 9 Uses of
adopt
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- For all I know I'm really fourteen or eighteen and adopted.†
Chpt 6adopted = took on as one's own
- Unable to have a child due to a botched abortion when she was eighteen, she insisted they adopt.†
Chpt 7adopt = take on as one's own
- This was Bethany, the beautiful baby he and Celine had adopted sixteen years ago.†
Chpt 12adopted = took on as one's own
- You...you're adopted.†
Chpt 16
- Adopted?†
Chpt 16
- Adopted?†
Chpt 16
- His first memory of her was as a baby wrapped in a pink blanket that Celine had purchased at Target a week before they'd finalized the adoption.†
Chpt 33adoption = the act of taking something on as one's own
- She isn't my seed, I adopted her, but I never became her father.†
Chpt 35adopted = took on as one's own
- The picture of the baby was his baby, his Bethany, his angel, but it was a photograph taken before he'd adopted her.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
to take on as one's own
The 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