Adopting Synonyms and Antonyms

Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. embracing
  2. parenting
  3. assuming
  4. fathering
  5. rearing
  6. fostering
  7. espousing
  8. raising
Antonyms:
  1. disinheriting
To vote acceptance
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ratifying
  2. sanctioning
  3. approving
  4. passing
  5. confirming
  6. affirming
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. espousing
  2. following
Put into dramatic form
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dramatizing

Adopting Sentence Examples

  • That left a choice between raising the child on her own or adopting it out.

  • It came as no surprise when Alex approached her about adopting Jonathan.

  • At that epoch the same three opinions were taken up and congealed into dogmas, which may be considered characteristic of the churches adopting them.

  • She'd roamed the ground floor before adopting the library as her favorite room and settling in front of a deadened hearth with a stack of celebrity magazines.

  • How do you feel about that — adopting him?

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