Adopt vs Adrogate - What's the difference?
adopt | adrogate |
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome, transitive) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
(Webster 1913)
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As verbs the difference between adopt and adrogate
is that adopt is (with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc while adrogate is (legal|historical|ancient rome|transitive) to adopt (a person who is his own master).adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .