Scrabble and Words with Friends

• ADOPT is a valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• ADOPT is a valid Words with Friends word worth 9 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• ADOPT is a 5 letter word containing the letters a, d, o, p, t.

Definitions

• adopt

  verb choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

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• adopt

  verb take up and practice as one's own

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• adopt

  verb take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

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• adopt

  verb take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  he adopted an air of superiority

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• adopt

  verb take into one's family
  They adopted two children from Nicaragua

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• adopt

  verb put into dramatic form
  adopt a book for a screenplay

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• adopt

  verb take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  They adopted the Jewish faith

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• Lookup ADOPT using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

Synonyms

Words that sound like 'adopt'

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