• v.
    ⦿take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
    lexical concept
  • She embraced Catholicism
  • They adopted the Jewish faith

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
lexinfo:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:adopt
  2. enl:embrace
  3. enl:espouse
  4. enl:sweep up
wn:interlingual indexili:i24769

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • embraceespousesweep up
  • adoptembraceespousesweep up