Definition as Verb

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
• take up and practice as one's own
• put into dramatic form
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• take into one's family

• assume, take on, take over

• assume, acquire, take on, take

• borrow, take over, take up

• dramatize, dramatise

• espouse, embrace, sweep up

• follow, espouse

• take in

• "When will the new President assume office?"

• "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"

• "adopt a book for a screenplay"

• "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

• "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

• "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"

• Adopt vs assume
• Adopt vs take on
• Adopt vs take over
• Adopt vs acquire
• Adopt vs take
• Adopt vs borrow
• Adopt vs take up
• Adopt vs dramatize
• Adopt vs dramatise
• Adopt vs espouse
• Adopt vs embrace
• Adopt vs sweep up
• Adopt vs follow
• Adopt vs take in