simple past tense and past participle of adopt

Of or relating to adoption.

(transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. / (transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.

Related through adoption. / Pertaining to adoption.

The act of adopting. / The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

plural of adopter

plural of adoptability

The property of being adoptable.

In a adoptive manner; by adoption.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adopt