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ADOPTED
adopted, adoptive
(adjective) acquired as your own by free choice; “my adopted state”; “an adoptive country”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
adopted
simple past tense and past participle of adopt
Source: Wiktionary
A*dopt"ed, a.
Definition: Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
– A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
ADOPT
A*dopt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting.] Etym: [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.]
1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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