Definitions For Adopt
verb
- Take into one's family
- Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- Put into dramatic form
- Take up and practice as one's own
- Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- To take a child of other parents legally as your own child
- To begin to use or have (a different manner, method, etc.)
- To begin to use (a name that is not your real or original name)
Is Adopts a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10
The word Adopt is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Adopt in a Sentence
- They were unable to have children of their own, so they decided to adopt.
- They decided to adopt a child.
- He was adopted as an infant.