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adopt verb tranzitiv

1. a adopta, a înfia.

2. a adopta, a acccepta, a primi, a îmbrăţişa;

to adopt a bill a adopta un proiect de lege;

to adopt a decision a adopta o hotărâre;

to adopt a resolution a adopta o rezoluţie;

to adopt another course of action a adopta o altă tactică, a-şi schimba tactica;

to adopt an attitude of a adopta o atitudine de.

3. (lingv.) a adopta, a împrumuta (un cuvânt dintr-o altă limbă).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He has a very pretty little niece too, whom he adopted as a daughter.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Children may be adopted by a relative or a new family.

(Adoption, NIH)

No, I have never had such an idea, and I cannot adopt it now.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

We must rather adopt Mr. Crawford's views, and make the performance, not the theatre, our object.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Did she not, then, adopt you of her own accord?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

This was part of the attitude he chose to adopt toward me; and I confess, ere the day was done, that I hated him with more lively feelings than I had ever hated any one in my life before.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

She could not speak the name, and look straight forward to Lady Russell's eye, till she had adopted the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the attachment between him and Louisa.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

You have hitherto been my adopted brother—I, your adopted sister: let us continue as such: you and I had better not marry.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

All was safe and prosperous; and as the removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another, Emma, being now certain of her ball, began to adopt as the next vexation Mr. Knightley's provoking indifference about it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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