verb
to make one's own what in some fashion one owes to another
adopt a new style
Synonyms: embrace, espouse, take on, take up
Related Word: affect, assume; appropriate, arrogate, take, usurp; domesticate, naturalize
Idioms: adapt to one's own ends, go in for
Contrasted words: reject, spurn; abjure, forswear, renounce
Antonyms: discard; repudiate